Holyrood’s justice sub-committee on policing told that more people’s immigration status will become insecure after Brexit

SCOTLAND must “maximise all the opportunities we can get” to protect people subject to immigration law, due to the Home Office’s poor record in assessing vulnerability, a representative of the Scottish Refugee Council has told MSPs.  

Theresa May argues the success of her deal is the exit from free movement, even as public concern over immigration decreases sharply

THE major boast made by Prime Minister Theresa May as she attempts to drive through her Brexit deal is that she has achieved a key demand from Leave campaigners in 2016 - leaving the EU's free movement regime.

Two-thirds of Scots would accept movement of workers between the EU and UK if it was necessary to secure a post-Brexit trade deal

A NEW poll has shown that Scots have the most favourable attitude towards migration in the UK, with 44 per cent agreeing that migrants had a positive impact compared to 30 per cent who disagreed.

The Survation poll on behalf of Channel 4 asked people in every part of the UK “do you believe immigration has had a positive or negative impact on Britain?”

The human rights organisation has questioned whether the Home Office has “a realistic grasp on all the people it has wrongly detained and removed”

A FORMAL APOLOGY from the UK Government to a mere 18 members of the Windrush generation who are believed to have been wrongfully removed or detained has been met with concern from Amnesty International, which has described the government’s approach as narrowly focused and “worrying”.

Facing the possibility that his deportation could begin at any moment, the former banker at UBS jailed in 2012 for fraud talks to CommonSpace about the motivations behind the ‘hostile environment’ policy and how our society is driven by ‘extractive capitalism’

KWEKU ADOBOLI, the former banker at UBS who was convicted in 2012 for fraud, could potentially be picked up at any moment and transported to a detention centre ahead of his potential deportation to Ghana, the nation of his birth.

Comfort Otiwaa Dwamena tells of her experience in Dungavel detention centre as threat of deportation continues

AN EDINBURGH resident of 13 years, Comfort Otiwaa Dwamena (pictured), was released from Dungavel detention centre on Tuesday (24 July) after spending fifteen nights in what she says felt “like a prison”.

“You’re there with an electric wall, with staff, and you feel caged. You feel in distress. I don’t think it’s worth it for someone to go through that,” Dwamena told CommonSpace.

Activist behind Ireland’s successful right to work campaign to speak at Unity Centre event in Glasgow

ASYLUM SEEKER-turned-activist Lucky Khambule, who successfully campaigned for the unrestricted right to work for those in the asylum system in Ireland, will speak in Glasgow next month at an event designed to kick-start a similar campaign in Scotland.

Sheppard: “My constituent Comfort is just the latest person to fall foul of the incompetence and callousness which seems to be widespread in the Home Office.”

A WOMAN in Dungavel detention centre has been given temporary reprieve from deportation to Ghana after the intervention of her MP, who says the Home Office reversal is just the latest case of “incompetence and callousness” in its detention and removal system for those seeking citizenship in the UK.

Comfort Otiwaa Dwamena has been in the UK since 2005 and lives in Edinburgh.

Rooftop protest by detainees over conditions at Dungavel on 13 July

A DETAINEE at the notorious Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre has ended a hunger strike embarked upon last week in protest at his treatment by the Home Office, but continues to demand that he be released ahead of his upcoming appeal so he can be with his family, outlining to CommonSpace horrendous conditions in the facility which led to a rooftop protest on Friday [13 July].

The Home Office has agreed to suspend parts of its hostile immigration policy while Windrush crisis is resolved

MIGRANT RIGHTS campaigners have said that the UK Government’s three-month suspension of some parts of the hostile environment immigration policy does not go nearly far enough.

“This policy has been proven to be very damaging and hostile. The government can see this from Windrush, but this is only one example – they need to wake up to this and suspend the whole policy,” director of Migrant Voice Nazek Ramadan told CommonSpace.