MSU's Young Americans for Freedom decided to cancel "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" in order to inform students about the effects of illegal immigration.

"We are altering our plans, not stopping them," said YAF Chairman Kyle Bristow. "We feel that if we were to do it differently, it would be more efficient to get our message across. Instead of doing our catch an illegal immigrant game on one day, we are hoping to do a few different events throughout a week."

MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon and other campus organizations, including the Residence Halls Association, condemned the event. Members of RHA passed a bill to publicly express their disagreement of the game and began planning ways to protest the event during Wednesday's meeting.

Bristow said the public's negative reaction to the event did not have anything to do with YAF's decision.

"It's pretty sick how they compared us to a lynch mob," Bristow said. "The press conference didn't do it. President Simon writing up her letter didn't do it. The fliers being distributed didn't do it. The invite to the rock (on Farm Lane) didn't do it. We are not deterred by any outside influences at all."

For more on this story, please see Friday's edition of The State News.