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Author	meepmeep13
Comment	For more context, these are asylum seekers - ie they immigrated legally by requesting asylum at the point of entry to the UK, and have been legally resident here pending their asylum claim. Asylum seekers may be housed anywhere in the UK, so they could have entered anywhere in the UK and in this case Glasgow council is putting them up. When an asylum claim is refused by the Home Office (which they do in the overwhelming majority of cases, given the nature of that institution - see [more details here](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/13/cruel-paranoid-failing-priti-patel-inside-the-home-office)) then the claimants have a right to legal representation and to appeal that claim. Meanwhile, as part of the 'hostile environment' policy introduced by Theresa May, the Home Office will institute a dawn raid to imprison the asylum seekers in a detention facility pending that appeal. So the important context is that these dawn raids are not proportionate or required in the case of people who have entered legally, registered with the authorities, and lived in our country at a registered address pending the outcome of a legal process. These dawn raids are entirely designed to be threatening and hostile, to make it clear that such people are not welcome whatever the merits of their claims. How do the authorities know where to raid? Because we literally housed them there. Here in Scotland we are far more pro-immigration and pro-asylum than the UK generally, and these Home Office practices are heavily opposed here. They are unnecessary, disproportionate, and dehumanising. And that is entirely intentional.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/nbdxyo/protest_happening_now_to_resist_these_cruel_raids/gxz8a68/
Created	Thu 13th May 2021 2:57pm
Status	normal ()

For more context, these are asylum seekers - ie they immigrated legally by requesting asylum at the point of entry to the UK, and have been legally resident here pending their asylum claim. Asylum seekers may be housed anywhere in the UK, so they could have entered anywhere in the UK and in this case Glasgow council is putting them up.

When an asylum claim is refused by the Home Office (which they do in the overwhelming majority of cases, given the nature of that institution - see [more details here](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/13/cruel-paranoid-failing-priti-patel-inside-the-home-office)) then the claimants have a right to legal representation and to appeal that claim.

Meanwhile, as part of the 'hostile environment' policy introduced by Theresa May, the Home Office will institute a dawn raid to imprison the asylum seekers in a detention facility pending that appeal.

So the important context is that these dawn raids are not proportionate or required in the case of people who have entered legally, registered with the authorities, and lived in our country at a registered address pending the outcome of a legal process. These dawn raids are entirely designed to be threatening and hostile, to make it clear that such people are not welcome whatever the merits of their claims. How do the authorities know where to raid? Because we literally housed them there.

Here in Scotland we are far more pro-immigration and pro-asylum than the UK generally, and these Home Office practices are heavily opposed here. They are unnecessary, disproportionate, and dehumanising. And that is entirely intentional.