The British government has told almost
40,000 people by text message that they
may be illegal immigrants, but officials have
admitted that some legal residents were
targeted.
"Message from the Home Office. Our records
show that you may not have leave to
remain in the UK. Please contact us to
discuss your case," the message said.
A spokesman for the Home Office, which is
responsible for immigration in the UK, said
the texts had been sent to 39,100 people
between September 2012 and June 2013.
It is more than just incompetence. It is racist
stereotyping.
Bobby Chan, immigration case worker
Similar messages were also sent out via
email and by post to contact individuals
who had no right to be in Britain, he said.
But some were received by legal residents,
including the anti-racism campaigner,
Suresh Grover, who said he was "absolutely
shocked and quite horrified".
"I came here with my parents in 1966, I was
born in East Africa and have always had a
British passport," he said.
Bobby Chan, an immigration adviser, said
he had also received a text despite having
lived in Britain since 1973.
"It is more than just incompetence, he told
Al Jazeera. "It is the racist stereotyping of
the Chinese community."
The Home Office spokesman said the
private contractor responsible for the text
campaign had acknowleged 14 texts were
sent in error, "a tiny, miniscule number".
The opposition Labour party condemned
the campaign as a "gimmick" that risked
offending and alienating its own citizens.
'Showing them the door'
It recalled a similar Home Office campaign in
July in which posters were displayed in
London asking: "In the UK illegally? Go home
or face arrest."
The posters were criticised as "stupid and
offensive" by the business secretary Vince
Cable, a Liberal Democrat member of Prime
Minister David Cameron's Conservative-led
coalition government.
But days after that campaign was launched,
British authorities rounded up scores of
"immigrant offenders" in a nationwide
operation condemned as racist.
The Home Office was widely criticised for
the spot-checks of hundreds of people at
stations and on streets in areas including
London, Durham, Manchester, Wales and
Somerset that lead to the arrest of 139
people.
Witnesses said that the spot checks
deliberately targeted ethnic minorities and
non-white people.

m.aljazeera.com/se/2013101904037182632

Why na

Britain is turning to a racist country starting from there leaders.

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Everything about Britain is racist..

Burger01: ^^^

Everything about Britain is racist..

your so on point!!!