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BOSTON – An iPhone mettlesome that allows users to intend a truck full of immigrants finished the desert patch disagreeable to prevent them from getting thrown discover of the container has been rejected by Apple Inc., the software's developer declared Thursday.

Owlchemy Labs, the Beantown consort that matured "Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration," said that the Apple App Store turned downbound the mettlesome three weeks ago, but it did accept the company's "Snuggle Truck" app, a mettlesome that allows players to "bring cute animals from the wild to the richness of a zoo."

Owlchemy Labs Developer Alex Schwartz said the migration game's rejection was "content-related" but couldn't give info supported on a contractual agreement.

"Smuggle Truck" lets players manoeuver finished what appears to be the U.S.-Mexican border. As the truck drives over cliffs, mountains and departed animals, immigrants start soured the truck's bed. Scores are premeditated by the sort of immigrants helped across the border.

The consort drew fire from immigrant advocates after it declared the game's creation in February. Advocates said the mettlesome was in slummy discernment and trivialized how immigrants risked their lives under what the advocates call a broken migration system.

But Schwartz said developers actually wanted to alter attention to migration reform and proven to attain trusty the game's characters weren't stereotypical.

"There were definitely some misconceptions," said Schwartz. "We went with the satire and we were kind of half artefact finished development when programme picked it up ... and inferred what we were going for."

Schwartz said the mettlesome fresh won an award at an autarkical recreation gathering and was showcased in front of hundreds of users.

"Smuggle Truck" can still be downloaded on PCs and Macs for $5. It includes for a limited-time a "legal migration mode." According to company, this fashion "gives players the possibleness to sit in a waiting shack and look at a measure that counts downbound over the incoming 20 years" and is meant to highlight the "efficiency of the recent migration process."

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