There seems to be no end to the British Home Office’s woes what with the organization finding itself on the wrong foot, all over again. As per certain fresh reports, presently, the Twitter world is ablaze with mounting criticisms directed at the Home Offices’ alleged tactics to come down hard on the so-called prohibited immigrants.
Several people with Twitter accounts have attacked the government over its body’s administrative Twitter account with the reason being it carries details of the raids made against individuals believed to be of doing jobs in the country, in an unlawful manner.
Allegedly, the account carries many updates on the arrests, even as the same includes pictures of suspects. A tweet mentioning that 139 persons have been taken into custody links to an administration web page that allegedly proclaims that immigration lawbreakers have been taken into custody. The same two times mentions those taken into custody as wrongdoers, prior to declaring that they, at the said stage, are just suspects.
Meanwhile, the incumbent immigration minister has said that the operations emphasize the everyday work the government is doing, to root-out prohibited working in the country. He added that the government is sending an unambiguous message to the recruiters, who employ unlawful workers, that they will be found out only to be slapped with heavy fines.
The tweets come in the wake of the notorious anti-immigration advertising drive targeting racially mixed regions of the British capital, London. The said movement utilized mobile billboards warning unlawful aliens to go home, lest they are arrested. At the present, the advertisements are being disputed through the courts.
Coming back to the recent tweet issue, critics have severely condemned the Home Office for continuing the administration’s hardcore public speaking on immigration even while fears have been raised related to the latest anti-immigration drives in London. In this connection, a critic has allegedly disclosed that he has sought a probe into the arbitrary checks which contravenes basic freedoms. He added that people are not yet staying in a society wherein the police or any other law officials possess the right to take individuals into custody, minus rational justification, and ask for their documents.
Echoing somewhat similar sentiments, another critic has issued the warning that the drives may provoke racial tensions. He added that over the last some weeks there have been some highly noticeable signals of the administration’s unfriendly environment campaign. However, a Home Office spokesman has reportedly strongly defended the tactics, saying the government has no regrets whatsoever for implementing the nation’s immigration regulations even as its officers perform a large number of such operations per annum around the British capital.
