Undocumented immigrants, held in prisons and detention centres where COVID-19 has spread, have gone on hunger strikes demanding to be released for their safety. Yielding to public pressure, the Canada Border Security Agency (CBSA) has conducted release hearings at an accelerated pace. Electronic monitoring bracelets continuously track the wearer's location via GPS and transmit it to a monitoring centre. It may reduce costs for governments, but it offers undocumented immigrants a disturbing choice: either physical or electronic prison. There are better alternatives to either detention or coercive surveillance measures for undocumented immigrants.

Source: CBC News June 16, 2020 07:52 UTC