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Three illegal migrants face deportation from UK after cannabis cultivation conviction
Drugs Crime
Jury rejected the trio's claim that they were coerced into being gardeners by the so-called 'Vietnamese Mafia'.
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Former North Ayrshire Tory Todd Ferguson signs up for Nigel Farage and Reform
Ayrshire Live
Todd Ferguson has become the third Tory to join Reform.
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Classes for asylum seekers at Renfrew campus halted
Schools
The lessons were being delivered in the community learning centre which shares a campus with St James’ Primary School and Moorpark early learning and childcare centre on Brown Street.
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Asylum seeker raped vulnerable teen in brutal attack in Scots park
Sex crime
Rapualla Ahmadze raped a vulnerable 17-year-old girl at Cooper Park in Elgin on August 4 last year.
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East Kilbride community group insists concerns around asylum hotel can't be ignored
Immigration
A recent poll conducted by East Kilbride Neighbourhood Watch has revealed that 77 per cent of local members do not support The Bruce Hotel being used for asylum and refugee accommodation.
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Reform UK councillor slammed after claiming 'sharia law' is being 'inflicted' on Glasgow
Immigration
Audrey Dempsey - who quit Labour following a race row - said "you just have to take a walk through the streets of Glasgow city centre" when asked to justify her wild claim.
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The SNP and Lib Dem reaction to the Inverness asylum seeker plan reeks of hypocrisy
Inverness
Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says Labour's centre-left rivals have let themselves down over the Cameron Barracks plan.
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Anas Sarwar insists Scots support closure of asylum hotels and 'understand' why barracks are used instead
Immigration
The Scottish Labour challenged the SNP to offer an alternative to using army barracks to temporarily house refugees.
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John Swinney blasts Home Office decision to send asylum seekers to Scots army base
Immigration
The SNP leader did not say he was opposed to the use of barracks being used for asylum seekers in general and did not offer an alternative to the use of hotels.
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Wrongly released prisoner deported to Ethiopia with no UK return rights
Immigration
Hadush Kebatu has arrived in Ethiopia after being deported from the UK with no right to return, the Home Office has confirmed.
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Labour's asylum seekers plan in Inverness is sensible although system is broken
Immigration
"It’s easy for the Liberal Democrats to carp from the sidelines. But if they have a better plan, they should speak up and reveal it."
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SNP record in Glasgow branded 'reprehensibly bad' as party accused of 'blaming others' over housing crisis
Immigration
A homelessness crisis has sparked a major row over who is responsible for Glasgow shouldering the cost of housing far more refugees than other council areas.
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Fury as Scots barracks chosen to house asylum seekers despite being secured by 'modest fence'
Immigration
Two barracks in Scotland and England will be used to accommodate around 900 asylum seekers as the UK Government ends the use of hotels for refugees.
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Scottish military barracks to house asylum seekers as hotel scheme comes to an end
Immigration
The Home Office confirmed on Monday that Cameron Barracks in Inverness would be used as part of new plans to house about 900 men temporarily.
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Cops raid 100 Scots shops in crackdown on money laundering and fake goods
Glasgow City Council
Operation Machinize blitz hits organised crime with police, HMRC, Home Office, DWP and Trading Standards
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Scottish Labour MP confident 'minging' asylum hotels will close as she blasts 'disastrous' Tory policy
Glasgow
Joani Reid, a member of the Home Affairs committee at Westminster, said asylum hotels were the Conservative Party's "biggest policy failure" of their fourteen years in government.
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Glasgow operating at 400% above housing plan for asylum seekers
Glasgow
The figure was contained in evidence to a Westminster inquiry into asylum seeker accommodation.
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Moment sex offender asylum seeker fugitive arrested after 3 days at large
Sex crime
Hadush Kebatu, 38, was sentenced to 12 months in jail just weeks ago for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and woman in Essex.
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Mum addresses 'monster' who raped, tortured and killed schoolgirl
Sex crime
Lola Daviet, 12, was raped and tortured before she was killed by Dahbia Benkired.
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Asylum seeker who sexually assaulted woman and girl freed from jail by mistake
Sex crime
Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, was jailed for 12 months in September after sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl in Epping, Essex, where he was living in a hotel
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Asylum seeker found guilty of 'cowardly' murder after stabbing hotel worker 23 times
Immigration
Deng Chol Majek is believed to have entered the UK by small boat less than three months before launching a frenzied attack on Rhiannon Whyte.
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Final moments of Lola Daviet before tragic suitcase murder in France
Sex crime
WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT, Dahbia Benkired, 24, was sentenced to life in prison yesterday and became the first woman in French history to be given a whole life tariff.
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Asylum seeker jailed for sexual assaults accidentally released from prison
Sex crime
A manhunt has been launched for Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, who was jailed for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl.
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Schoolgirl's hideous final moments as woman 'raped and tortured her for revenge'
Courts
WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Lola Daviet, 12, was allegedly raped, tortured and then murdered by Dahbia Benkired, an Algerian woman who was staying in the same apartment block.
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