By no borders glasgow, submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 03/11/2005 - 05:50
Just after opening its doors this morning, Wednesday 2nd November, the Immigration Office in Brand Street, Ibrox, Glasgow was taken over by protestors.
The Brand Street Reporting Centre has been brought to a complete standstill in what is understood to be an all day occupation and effective shut down. Home Office staff cannot enter or leave the building.
At the same time protesters were occupying the building. Another group of protesters went round to the back of the building where the entrance to the 'enforcement Unit' vehicle compound for the 'snatch squads' is and chained and padlocked the gates.
Brand Street immigration office is where asylum seekers go to report weekly with their children, and where dawn raid victims are taken to be finger printed, photographed before being transferred to removal centres such as Yarl's Wood and Dungavel. It is one of a network of government buildings across the UK from which people are disappeared.
The aim is to prevent anyone who signs-on at the Centre being removed from Glasgow suddenly, for at least one day.
No One Is Illegal!
Join the protesters:
UK Immigration Service
Festival Court
200 Brand Street
Glasgow
G1 1DH
The Brand Street Reporting Centre has been brought to a complete standstill in what is understood to be an all day occupation and effective shut down. Home Office staff cannot enter or leave the building.
At the same time protesters were occupying the building. Another group of protesters went round to the back of the building where the entrance to the 'enforcement Unit' vehicle compound for the 'snatch squads' is and chained and padlocked the gates.
Brand Street immigration office is where asylum seekers go to report weekly with their children, and where dawn raid victims are taken to be finger printed, photographed before being transferred to removal centres such as Yarl's Wood and Dungavel. It is one of a network of government buildings across the UK from which people are disappeared.
The aim is to prevent anyone who signs-on at the Centre being removed from Glasgow suddenly, for at least one day.
No One Is Illegal!
Join the protesters:
UK Immigration Service
Festival Court
200 Brand Street
Glasgow
G1 1DHRelated
Info on No Borders Glasgow group
Related
http://www.openborders.org.uk