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Leading Glasgow politicians have written to the Home Office telling officials to stop unannounced immigration raids, as the Scottish Refugee Council urged Police Scotland to “push back” against further operations.
Their demands came a week after a peaceful protest prevented the detention of two men in the south of the city.
The cross-party signatories, who included Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, and the leader of the Scottish Greens, Patrick Harvie, said in a joint letter: “We are proud to say that, for more a decade, regardless of who has been in power in Scotland, there has been cross-party opposition to dawn raids.”
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HOLYROOD must pursue every route possible within its devolved powers to mitigate the impact of no recourse to public funds (NRPF) clauses on migrants in Scotland, public-sector and charity leaders have said.
While giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s local government and communities committee today, representatives from across the third sector called on the SNP administration to co-ordinate a cross-government response to redress the harm that NRPF causes to individuals and families.
The policy bars people with limited leave to remain in Britain from accessing certain types of publicly funded support, including universal credit, housing benefit and child benefit.