PieFedIllegal migrants to face clothing and mouth searches for phones at UK ports
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Police in Britain will be able to require illegal migrants to remove their coats and allow mouth searches at British ports so officers can look for mobile phones or SIM cards and gather intelligence on their journey, the government said on Monday.
“Using invasive powers to search through the clothing - and even inside the mouths - of desperate and traumatised people when they have just survived a terrifying journey across the Channel is a dystopian act of brutality,” said Sile Reynolds, Head of Asylum Advocacy at Freedom from Torture
Has the UK always used the term “Illegal Immigrants”? I just thought that was a slur invented by republicans to use against undocumented.
Republicans use “illegal aliens”. Illegal immigrants is much more commonly used because agree with the law or not, it is illegal to enter that way.
Except it’s not if you’re applying for asylum. A better term is irregular migration.
It doesn’t matter? You can apply for asylum by legally crossing the border as tourist. Those people do not cross border legally = they are by definition illegal immigrants.
Ah, yes persecuted people in countries where their government might kill them on sight should’ve just asked that same government nicely for a passport and a visa for a tourist visit abroad.
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https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/wordsmatter/illegal-immigration/
Doesnt answer your question but gives a bit more insight.
I believe that this change is fair and propose that police are given the right to break any right of any illegal immigrant if they see fit
But for these changes to work, they need to stop remove the laws causing immigrants to be illegal
NOBODY is putting a mobile phone in their mouth.
Looking in a mouth is a dystopian act of brutality? I didn’t know it was such a dire situation with the britisch oral hygiene.