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Dear Friend,
Dawn raids are back!
STOP DAWN RAIDS! STOP DETAINING CHILDREN!
Hope you can have the info posted far and wide asap as the protest demo
is this Monday 21 November
at 10am Brand Street ( Just Google map it). We hope YOU will come and make it a well-attended protest that will make it clear to all that the
UK Border Agency using dawn raids and the detention of families is just not acceptable.
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Dawn raids are back!
Watch out for the UKBA in your community – warn your neighbours!
UKBA still insist, “We do not detain children for immigration.”
Unity calls on all campaigners and supporters to work to make sure that for
once this becomes a reality.
STOP DAWN RAIDS! STOP DETAINING CHILDREN!
Come to the protest Monday 21 November,
10.00 am at Festival Court, Brand street, Ibrox, Glasgow
Following the dawn raid on two families early last week Unity is calling
for a protest outside of the UKBA reporting centre and headquarters of the
Immigration Enforcement Team on Monday 21 November. Unity hopes it will be
a well-attended protest that will make it clear once and for all that the
UKBA using dawn raids and the detention of families is just not acceptable.
Monday 21 November is the next working day after the UN’s Universal
Children’s Day on 20 November – a day set aside for promoting the welfare
of the children of the world. (http://www.un.org/en/events/childrenday/).
We want as many people as possible to come to Brand Street on Monday to
make a noisy colourful protest against the resumption of dawn raids that
the UKBA cannot ignore.
More information about how Funke and Joseph were treated can be seen below
this call-out.
People involved with Unity are particularly angry that the dawn raids were
carried out on families containing young children who were asleep when
immigration officials forced their way into the homes. The children were
woken up by immigration officials wearing uniforms and stab-proof vests
only to see their mothers being handcuffed.
This barbaric treatment of families who have not been convicted of any
crime is something many people thought had disappeared following widespread
community protest and opposition from all Scottish political parties in 2006.
We want the protest on Monday to be a big day-long action, so tell as many
people as possible. The protest will continue into the afternoon so even if
you can’t make it for 10am, come along when you can.
Join the protest outside the UKBA office on Brand Street (Google map it) from 10am on
Monday 21 November to show your opposition to dawn raids and child detention.
Funke Olubiyi and her son Joseph were forcibly removed from the UK on
Saturday evening despite a last minute attempt to get an injunction on
medical grounds. Speaking from Nigeria, Funke described how nine
immigration officials and guards and a doctor accompanied her and her son
onto the plane.
On the phone Funke thanked everyone who had tried to fight for her and told
us that she was OK for now and staying with friends.
Funke and Joseph were the first family from Scotland known to have been
detained in the new family detention centre called ‘Cedars’ in the village
of Pease Pottage close to Crawley in Sussex.
The family had been detained following a ‘dawn raid’ at their home when
little Joseph aged only 5 and 2 months had been asleep in his bed. Funke
had been preparing to have a bath and had been undressed when seven
immigration officials forced their way into the family’s small flat on Shaw
Street in Govan. Joseph was not allowed to have any breakfast in his house
and was only given some food after the family had been taken to the
reporting centre at Brand Street.
A day earlier the UKBA had detained another single mother and baby during a
dawn raid but she had managed to convince the immigration officials to
realise her after being held at Brand Street with her baby for over seven
hours.
These two raids mark the return of dawn raids to Glasgow following a period
of several years when the UKBA had almost totally stopped raiding asylum
seeker families.
Despite holding Funke and Joseph for three days and three nights in their
‘pre-departure accommodation’ at Cedars which with its 2.5 metre tall
perimeter fence is run by security firm G4S the UKBA still insist “We do
not detain children for immigration.”
Unity calls on all campaigners and supporters to work to make sure that for
once this becomes a reality.
Come to the protest on Monday 21 November.
The UNITY Centre
30 Ibrox Street
Glasgow
G51 1AQ
0141 427 7992
http://www.unitycentreglasgow.org
info@unitycentreglasgow.org
The UNITY Centre is run entirely by volunteers and funded completely by
donations from our supporters. We need your help!