{"id":8710,"date":"2020-05-26T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T15:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2020-05-26T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T18:23:58","slug":"tracking-bracelets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/tracking-bracelets","title":{"rendered":"Denounce CBSA\u2019s Use of Tracking Bracelets on Migrants Under Cover of the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tracking is Not Freedom! <\/b>Act Now in Solidarity
\n<\/b>#NoMigrantMonitoring #FreeThemAll<\/span><\/p>\n

Under cover of the pandemic, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) in Qu\u00e9bec is now forcing migrants to accept electronic tracking bracelets as a condition of their release from detention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This move to normalize electronic tracking of migrants in Qu\u00e9bec is an extension of the government\u2019s \u2018alternatives to detention\u2019 program, under which state surveillance of migrants is outsourced to the John Howard Society in Qu\u00e9bec (and other organizations in the rest of Canada).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It comes in the context of a broader drive towards increased policing and <\/span>surveillance<\/span><\/a> as part of the government’s control measures for the pandemic. We denounce the tracking in all its forms and demand full freedom for all migrants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracking – through bracelets, GPS-voice recognition systems or parole-like programmes managed by the John Howard Society – is not freedom. Just last week, a group of undocumented migrants released a call for a <\/span>comprehensive program of regularization<\/span><\/a> – let\u2019s remember that the only alternative to detention is NO detention, and real freedom is the one that is followed by <\/span>#statusforall<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Together, let\u2019s make visible & denounce these practices that hold people\u2019s lives hostage, voicing our defiance to their normalization.<\/b><\/p>\n

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