In London's Lunar House charity is conducting a light projection protest (projection pattern means "surveillance of immigration, never stop")
10 years, under the so-called "Hostile Environment policy" of the British Ministry of the Interior, the basic human rights of illegal immigration after bail - especially privacy - have been ruthlessly deprived.
UK's immigration policy is veritable, and it is extremely strict in implementation and is incompatible. Illegal immigrants have either been deported or on the way back. The Ministry of the Interior has arbitrarily acted in immigration management: confiscating mobile phones, investigating the birth nationality of children, and sharing data on police victims of crimes. But for the past 10 years, the voice of resistance has never stopped.
Just this week, the first illegal immigration repatriation flight to Rwanda was scheduled to take off. This not only marks the cruel discrimination against immigration in the UK over the past decade, but also heralds an increasing oppression in the decades to come.
In order to implement harsh policies, the British Ministry of Home Affairs does everything to monitor illegal immigrants after bail and restrict personal freedom. In the eyes of the British government, no matter which generation of immigrants they are, they are naturally inferior to their own people.
After paying bail , illegal immigrants will be forced to wear GPS leg rings. The positioning system in the leg ring will record the wearer's whereabouts 24 hours a day as a punitive monitoring method for the government.
location data will reveal a person's most private life. Whether you go to a miscarriage clinic, gay bar, anarchist bookstore, or synagogue, Christian church, or mosque, you can't escape GPS surveillance. Previously, the management of immigration used "RF tag" positioning, which only records the distance between the wearer and the base station. So, does the UK Home Office really need so much location data today to ensure that immigrants comply with bail regulations? Of course not needed. This is just an even worse punishment.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, GPS positioning monitoring is used to prevent illegal immigrants from violating bail regulations and absconding. However, if they look at the facts, they will find that this situation is hardly possible. In 2020, only 1% of illegal immigrants chose to abscond after being released. According to the Bail for Immigration Detaineees (BID), of the approximately 7,000 illegal immigrants who were bailed from February 2020 to March 2021, only 43 chose to abscond, accounting for less than 0.56%.
Immigration to the UK does not need a mandatory reason to "help" them to comply with bail regulations, and 99% of people are conscious. The Ministry of the Interior’s policies in this regard are completely unnecessary hegemony. More importantly, the UK Home Office grants itself the power to use GPS to monitor the privacy of illegal immigrants. This behavior of has no legal basis at all, but is based on some so-called "internal regulations". result is tragic: if an immigrant wears a leg ring, all his actions can be used as a reason to oppose his life in the UK.
let's see where we went last year - can you remember what you did in these places? Just as Richelieu said: "Even the most honest person, I can find evidence of the crime in the six lines he wrote." If you want to add a crime, there is no reason to worry. The actions of the UK Home Office are undoubtedly an abuse of power, nakedly violating human rights laws - they not only deprive immigrants of their privacy, but also their freedom of social, action and speech. When people know that their every word and deed may be regarded as a basis for living in the country "unsuitable" in the future, can they still live as themselves?
GPS positioning monitoring also greatly affects people's mental health, family relationships and lifestyles. Immigrants said that wearing leg rings, they had to change their dress and daily activities, and dare not go to churches they believe in, and even treat their children differently. They feel that there are constant people who are vocalizing and even insulting eyes. Faced with these survivors who escaped from the disaster in their own country, the British government not only did not provide corresponding medical and social assistance, but instead put on leg rings on them.One wearer said: "I feel even more lonely, and I even want to hide alone. With this mark, anxiety surges in my heart. I don't want to go into the crowd because I'm the only one wearing a leg ring."
also has evidence that the wearer must charge every few hours due to defects in the leg ring battery. Immigrants must go to the wall to charge several times a day, otherwise the leg rings will vibrate and flash red. What's worse is that the power exhaustion of GPS markers will be recorded as a violation of bail regulations, causing civil or even criminal penalties, and affecting immigration records - All of this is simply because of the markers' own technical defects.
What we are most worried about is that in another ten years, by 2032, will we find that this "severe environmental policy" has been implemented for a full 20 years? By then, more "advanced" technologies were used to monitor people - facial recognition on the border, positioning system in smart watch , dynamic risk assessment when applying for visas - Our past, our lives, our trauma, everything we can speak and cannot speak, turned into cold numbers, telling only the stories the British government wants to hear.
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