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Activists from Stand Up to Racism hold a demonstration outside the Home Office's Glasgow Immigration Enforcement Reporting Centre in July 2020
REFUGEE rights campaigners have urged the Home Office and its contractors to close a controversial mother and baby unit in Glasgow that has seen women removed from private accommodation in the community.
The #FreedomToCrawl campaign, launched in January as a coalition of support groups, has made fresh calls to remove new and expectant asylum-seeker mothers from cramped accommodation in the city, with some families having entered the unit in the past fortnight.
Since January, residents have repeatedly voiced their concerns about the mother and baby unit, run by Home Office contractor Mears, which remains in operation.
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
