Apple Bans Immigrant Smuggling Game

Apple has rejected an iPhone game called "Smuggle Truck," which challenges gamers to navigate a purple truck filled with immigrants across an unnamed desert into the country.

Lose too many passengers on the bumpy back roads of the desert and you lose. Not surprisingly the game drew the ire of immigrants' rights groups and Apple refused to stamp the developer's passport into the App Store before the game ever made it onto iPhones.

But to get around Apple's censors, Owlchemy Labs swapped the immigrants for fuzzy little critters.

"We submitted our satire 'Smuggle Truck' for availability on the iOS App Store. We were denied. We therefore decided to submit "Snuggle Truck," the developers said.