Surveillance
Surveillance will not stop. Conceptualizing immigrants as undesirable individuals that must be excluded,
only serves as a reason to exclude them from society while intensifying methods of control to the whole population. In order to protest these methods, it is necessary to design new devices that will help us maintain our human dignity as much as algorithmically possible.
Disruption
COYOTEK is our way of facing our controlled reality by designing products that are needed today to escape current surveillance methods.
It was born from our anxiety of what our future could turn into, an anxiety that let us imagine how far our humanity could be infringed.
Normalization
Immigration systems were designed based on the idea of exclusion. In response to this, surveillance methods
have evolved to an extremely specialized and invasive degree, becoming a constant reminder of the lack of civil liberties for immigrants. This social control has become a “normal” part of immigrant’s lives, controlling their culture, identity and movement into the physical and digital spaces. COYOTEK enables new disruptive narratives to help individuals resist this system.
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Acrodonta
Migrant surveillance in the Arizona desert forces migrants through more difficult terrain in the Arizona desert, increasing the number of deaths and trauma for immigrants. Read More Take Action
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Amnesix
For many immigrants is becoming increasingly hard to travel into the united states. Even Naturalized citizens get stop and searched on regular basis. Additionally, many immigrant storytellers, journalists, activist and filmmakers are stopped regularly at airports and asked for their computer and social media passwords. This will only increases as the Department of Homeland Security prepares to collect immigrant’s social media information without their consent. Read More Take Action
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Cream Ridge
Immigrants are constantly racially profile by the police. In many cities and states the police works directly with ICE, DHS and HSI to profile immigrants through programs like “Secure Communities.” “Random” more checks have only increased since DHS is finding creative ways to be more autonomous. Read More Take Action
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Vox Honduras
Immigrants are regularly victims of racial profiling, by law enforcement like border patrol, ice and the police. For example, many Central American migrants living in Staten Island are target of random check by ICE and the police using the excuse of gang activity. It is hard to even get a drink our go out with your friend in Staten Island if you are a Central American immigrant. Read More Take Action