The Division of Homeland Safety is contemplating a actuality tv present pitch from a Duck Dynasty producer that might concentrate on U.S. citizenship.
The present, referred to as The American, would put immigrants by means of a collection of challenges as they compete for U.S. citizenship. It’s being pitched by actuality TV veteran Rob Worsoff (Duck Dynasty, The Millionaire Matchmaker), as he confirmed on his Fb web page on Friday. “It’s not mean-spirited. As a substitute, ‘The American’ is a celebration of what it means to be… nicely… American – At a time when our morale is at an all-time low,” Worsoff stated.
In a press release to The Hollywood Reporter, Division of Homeland Safety assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that the present was being reviewed.
“The Division of Homeland Safety receives tons of of tv present pitches a 12 months, starting from documentaries surrounding ICE and CBP border operation to white collar investigations by HSI,” McLaughlin stated. “Every proposal undergoes a radical vetting course of previous to denial or approval.”
McLaughlin stated The American was within the “starting phases of that vetting course of and has not obtained approval or denial by employees.”
The Daily Mail was the primary to report the information. The Day by day Mail reported that Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem was pushing the undertaking, which McLaughlin, in her assertion, denied.
In his Fb publish, Worsoff stated he hadn’t spoken to Noem but however added that he has been working with a few of her colleagues on the DHS. He additionally recommended that he had pitched the present throughout former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden’s administrations. “It was by no means a flat-out NO from any admin. It was at all times nearly timing,” he stated.
Worsoff, an immigrant from Canada, additionally confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that this system can be a contest present the place residents compete in stereotypically American actions like accumulating gold from a mine in San Francisco or assembling a Mannequin T in Detroit.
Beneath the Trump administration, the Division of Homeland Safety has spent tens of millions on tv and radio commercials that includes Noem telling immigrants who’re within the nation illegally to “depart now.”
Worsoff emphasised in his Fb publish that he needed his present to ship a optimistic message. He pressured that, per his pitch, any backwards motion within the present’s competitors wouldn’t have an effect on an immigrant’s citizenship course of in actual life. He wrote on Fb that he needed the collection to be “a heartfelt collection with tears of pleasure and enjoyable loud American challenges — be they psychological, or bodily.”
He added, “I look ahead to extra updates on this sooner or later.”