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After dawn raids... the new scandal

The Home Office has a new strategy to target asylum seekers: lure families to immigration offices, then ship them to England for deportation.

IT passed by almost unnoticed. A mother and her two young children seeking asylum in Scotland were ordered to report to an immigration office. They thought it was routine - but half an hour later they were on their way to a cell in Dungavel detention centre.