WEB NEWS - 'Go home' ad campaign targets illegal immigrants
- 11 years ago
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UK: 'Go home' ad campaign targeting illegal immigrants
“In the UK illegally? Go home or face arrest." … two billboards like this were mounted on vans and driven around a number of London boroughs last week as part of a UK Home Office publicity campaign. The aim being to urge illegal immigrants to make themselves known to the authorities so that they could be sent back to their home country.
Not everyone in the ruling coalition supports the campaign and it’s also stirred up mixed and lively reactions on social networks. The vehicles used have been dubbed the “racist vans” by web users who slam the government for their uncompromising extreme right “go home” choice of words.
Others have shown their opposition to the scheme by doctoring the original billboard design, with more than a hint of irony, and urging tax dodgers to pay their taxes, or even calling for the unemployed to find work or be sent to prison.
Other more mischievous Brits contacted their Home Office using the number provided on the billboard campaign to ask if the government would be willing to pay their taxi fare, if they too asked to go home.
And despite the criticism, the government has said it was a successful operation, and according to reports from local media, the authorities are considering rolling out t... Go on reading on our web site.
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UK: 'Go home' ad campaign targeting illegal immigrants
“In the UK illegally? Go home or face arrest." … two billboards like this were mounted on vans and driven around a number of London boroughs last week as part of a UK Home Office publicity campaign. The aim being to urge illegal immigrants to make themselves known to the authorities so that they could be sent back to their home country.
Not everyone in the ruling coalition supports the campaign and it’s also stirred up mixed and lively reactions on social networks. The vehicles used have been dubbed the “racist vans” by web users who slam the government for their uncompromising extreme right “go home” choice of words.
Others have shown their opposition to the scheme by doctoring the original billboard design, with more than a hint of irony, and urging tax dodgers to pay their taxes, or even calling for the unemployed to find work or be sent to prison.
Other more mischievous Brits contacted their Home Office using the number provided on the billboard campaign to ask if the government would be willing to pay their taxi fare, if they too asked to go home.
And despite the criticism, the government has said it was a successful operation, and according to reports from local media, the authorities are considering rolling out t... Go on reading on our web site.
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