How can a country like ours take such unhuman actions?
Just occasionally a story emerges, which initially sounds too unlikely, too horrendous, to be true.
Just occasionally a story emerges, which initially sounds too unlikely, too horrendous, to be true.
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BY ARCHBISHOP MARIO CONTI
"I must have missed something," I thought, as I read, with growing disbelief, the details of a human rights scandal likely to occur later this summer, not in a far-off dictatorship, but in Glasgow.
Put briefly, what is envisaged is the eviction and compulsory destitution of around 100 persons who have come to this country seeking asylum. They will be ejected from the housing currently available to them, and forced on to the streets; already they are forbidden from working, are given no mainstream social security benefit, no clothing, no food, no shelter. The latest threat is that they will be thrown into destitution.
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