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TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters Life!) – A controversial iPod and iPad application that makes a mettlesome of the perils of sneaking crossways the U.S.-Mexico abut has sparked disceptation among activists for immigrant rights.

In the mettlesome "Smuggle Truck," which is cod for promulgation incoming month, a pushcart bounces along a humor inhospitable route and sheds men, women and children as it hits bumps and vine over creeks and canyons.

Developers feature the mettlesome -- the intend of which is to keep immigrants in the bed of the pushcart as they speed finished the abut lands -- is to verify a sarcastic swipe at the country's busted migration system.

But activists unsuccessful to see the app's queer side.

Around 11 meg banned immigrants live and impact in the shadows in the United States. Each year hundreds of thousands are inactive as they essay to sneak crossways the clifflike southwest abut from Mexico, and hundreds perish making the trip.

"Smuggle Truck was inspired by the frustration our friends hit old in trying to immigrate to the United States," Smuggle Truck's developer, Boston-based concern Owlchemy Labs, said in a statement posted online.

"With such a troublesome supply being mostly avoided in popular media, especially recording games, we felt the prizewinning artefact to criticize it was with an mutual satire," it added.

In gray Arizona, where 11 banned immigrants were killed when a smuggling pushcart pronounceable over in June 2009, activists for immigrant rights said it has no multipurpose purpose.

It "does no service whatsoever to migration nor to an discernment of the abut and what the realities are," said Jennifer Allen, chief director of the Tucson-based Border Action Network.

"Crossing the abut is not alas a hop in a restorative pushcart and a snap along a inhospitable road. It's actually now embellish a high-stakes ... high-risk ... venture," she added.

(Reporting by Tim Gaynor; Editing by Jerry Norton and Patricia Reaney)

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