In the newsletter from PICUM we read about a campaign in the UK that intends to send out a hard-line message to undocumented migrants that they should go home. It consists of billboards and advertising vans that will drive around several London boroughs. The campaign has been criticised for misleading ads displayed on billboards. A large-print claim of “106 arrests last week in your area” on the billboards is followed by an asterisk referring viewers to a footnote too small to be read when the van is moving, indicating the week in question and a large number of boroughs which are not usually referred to as ‘one area’ including direct arrests at airports of new arrivals (read more here: http://picum.org/en/news/bulletins/41724#news_41689)
