Another victim of Britain’s press-driven immigration policy

[The BBC is reporting](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6258005.stm) that there was a protest today in Glasgow today against the intended removal of a Ugandan asylum-seeker who was seized when she went for her routine signing-on last Monday. The removal follows a familiar pattern: an asylum-seeker turns up to sign on, is “taken to another room, put in a van and swooped down to Yarls Wood [detention centre] without being able to go back to get their belongings” according to the local Scottish Parliamentarian.

In this particular case – as in the Kachepa case – the woman is considered an upstanding member of the local community and they want her to stay. The government, of course, has targets and what the gutter press say to think about, and it’s easier to go for the easy targets: people with families who co-operate rather than disappearing underground. It’s easier to do this, of course, when you have [a Ugandan agent in the immigration service](https://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/12/18/british_immigration_infiltrate) and [judges who use racial slurs in conversation](http://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/story/0,,1965067,00.html) and turn down applications with the same specious argument several times.