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

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    3 days ago

    Has the UK always used the term “Illegal Immigrants”? I just thought that was a slur invented by republicans to use against undocumented.

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    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

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    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.