About 150 asylum seekers and sans-papiers* from the Red Road area of Glasgow joined the regular Saturday picket at the Immigration Reporting and Enforcement Centre in Ibrox. The demonstration was to protest at weekly signings, against deportations and for the right to work. It was called by the Red Road branch of Unity, the new union for asylum seekers andsans-papiers in Scotland.
Saturday also saw the opening of the Unity Centre, in a vacant shop at 31 Ibrox Street, 50 yards from the Immigration Reporting Centre. The Unity Centre has been set up jointly by Unity and Glasgow No Border Network, and will function as an advice and information shop and a campaigning centre, fighting for the right to stay, the right to work, the right to live, for all asylum seekers and sans-papiers in Scotland.
*sans-papiers: people without immigration papers and those refused asylum.
