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!

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Sophie

I would like to receive news when you guys are chaning the place to meet.
I woul like to join this student group.

Thanks

Franzi