Refugees to be electronically tagged and prosecuted if they don't comply (from the UK)

[NCLefty]

Source: The Independent

Refugees who cross the Channel in small boats to reach the UK are set to be electronically tagged - and prosecuted if they fail to comply - under Home Office plans.

Campaigners and experts have accused ministers of adopting a "draconian and punitive" approach that will see people who have fled conflict and danger treated as "criminals", and of pushing through the plan despite having "no concrete evidence" that it will improve levels of compliance.

A 12-month pilot will see some of those who travel to Britain via what the government terms "unnecessary and dangerous routes" fitted with tags, potentially including those recognised as victims of torture and trafficking, according to new Home Office guidance.

If tagging conditions are breached, asylum seekers may be considered for detention and removal, subject to administrative arrest, or prosecuted, the document states.

Earlier this week, the government was criticised over its controversial Rwanda deportation plan, with a flight scheduled to deport asylum seekers to central Africa being grounded at the last minute after European judges intervened on human rights grounds.

It is understood that some of the 130 asylum seekers who were detained for removal on the flight will be among the first to be fitted with electronic tags, if and when they are released from detention.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/refugees-electronic-tag-home-office-boats-b2103622.html

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Refugees to be electronically tagged and prosecuted if they don't comply under 'draconian' Home Office plan

Ministers accused of treating people seeking refuge as criminals in 'dehumanising' move

I don't quite understand what the tag is... ankle monitor?

[Ligyron]

1. Mark of the Beast?

Repent, the end is near!

More fuel for the end timers, lol.

[FreepFryer]

2. They don't describe the specifics of the tagging because they are unavoidably too personal

To the reader.

Can’t have them relating to the immigrant.

This kind of fascist dehumanization works best gradually and at a seeming distance.

[jimfields33]

5. Isn't Rwanda in war?

Why not a safer African country? I’d imagine the refugees would be comfortable anywhere but Britain and Rwanda.

[róisín_dubh]

11. Um, no.

Are you referring to the civil war there? That ended in the 90s. It's one of the safest places in Africa to visit.

[róisín_dubh]

11. Um, no.

Are you referring to the civil war there? That ended in the 90s. It's one of the safest places in Africa to visit.

[oldsoftie]

7. Well we've all been tagged. By the microchip in the vaccine!!

So THATS done!

[Gilbert Moore]

3. It's the Brit's

I wouldn't put a microchip behind the ear as out of the question, like a lost puppy, but likely a ankle monitor type device. When will have the sense to dump their mop headed idiot ?

[2naSalit]

4. That's so fucked up.

But I'm not surprised.

[malthaussen]

6. "Who stands on British soil shall be forever free."

Oh, Britain, what have you let your Government do to you?

-- Mal

[Lonestarblue]

8. What is going on with Boris Johnson's government!

This plan is horrible and inhumane. As soon as I saw “electronic tagging,” my first thought was that it’s a modern version of the Nazis tattooing Jews. Ugh.

Boris Johnson and his government need to go. Recently, he claimed that the Northern Ireland protocol he negotiated with the EU for Brexit will be abandoned, and it will be no big deal. It is a big deal, and risks further division between Northern Ireland and Ireland. What Johnson wants is free movement of goods from the UK to Northern Ireland, eliminating the EU taxes. The problem comes once the goods are in Northern Ireland as there was free trade between the two when the UK was part of the EU. The EU has a right to expect customs duties on goods coming into an EU country from a non-EU country. Johnson seems to think he can just dismiss this expectation as if they are still part of the old EU trade agreements. The EU would have every right to establish a customs border between Ireland and Northern Ireland to prevent tax avoidance.

Such a border would not help the fragile coexistence that has been in place for many years now. The people of Northern Ireland may not be ready for reunification with the south, but they would be better off in the EU than the UK.

[sakabatou]

9. Inhumane

[cbabe]

10. A US surveillance program tracks nearly 200,000 immigrants. What happens to their data?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/14/us-immigration-surveillance-isap

A US surveillance program tracks nearly 200,000 immigrants. What happens to their data?

The Biden administration is proposing to expand a controversial surveillance program that tracks the whereabouts of more than 180,000 immigrants awaiting their day in court. But there is little transparency about what data is collected by the private company with an exclusive contract to run the program, or what may happen to that data in the future.

In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US lawmakers on 23 February raised fresh concerns about the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, and the data collection practices of BI Inc, the private company running the effort for US Immigration and Custom Enforcement (Ice).

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We already know that data collected from ankle shackles has been used to conduct enforcement and deportation operations,” the lawmakers wrote.

“This technology has the capability of surveilling not only the subject but also bystanders – including US citizens and individuals with legal status – raising further civil rights concerns and creating a potential for unwarranted surveillance,” the letter reads.

…more…