Immigration rights groups in the United States are demanding an immigration-based reality show be pulled off the air. Gana La Verde (Win the Green), a television program broadcast on West coast Spanish-language stations, gives illegal immigrants a chance to win a year's legal counsel towards a green card by competing in contests ranging from jumping between speeding transport trucks to eating the worm from a bottle of tequila. The Central American Resource Center and American Immigration Lawyers Association called for the show to be pulled or advertisers will be boycotted and legal action will be taken. Lenard Liberman, co-owner of Liberman Broadcasting, said the popular show will stay on the air, claiming they are just trying to "help Maria go from a nanny to a nurse." |