Minecraft: A Virtual Way to Be With a Deported Friend The Los Angeles Times
go to original September 2, 2013

A group of Berkeley fourth-graders have created a virtual world to stay in touch with a classmate. (LATimes)

Rodrigo Guzman, 10, lived with his family in Berkeley until U.S. officials took their passports while the family was traveling to Mexico.

Worried that they'd lose touch with Rodrigo and that he'd lose hope, classmate Kyle and his twin brother, Scott, turned to Minecraft, a video game where they'd forged their greatest bonds with each other.

With the ability to create virtual worlds in Minecraft, one of the unlikeliest video game hits in recent years, these students could create a haven for themselves and Rodrigo. They could build "Rodrigo's World."

"We just wanted to be able to hang out somewhere with Rodrigo where none of this other stuff mattered," Scott said. "The more we learn about immigration, the more unfair it seems."

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