News May 2021
28 May 2021
The Aspen Card Crisis
Thousands of asylum seeking families are believed to have been left without any money for food or essential purchases for over a week because of a shambolic changeover of debit cards. Complaints have flooded in to Positive Action in Housing – and NGOs across the U.K. – since May 24,…
25 May 2021
More impoverishment for Glasgow Asylum Seekers as Aspen card switch leaves families Without Food or Money
Positive Action in Housing, a refugee and migrants homelessness charity, is receiving a high volume of reports of impoverishment from asylum seekers in Glasgow and elsewhere across the U.K. Complaints have flooded in since Monday when the Home Office ended its Aspen Card contract with Sodexo and switched to…
16 May 2021
The lessons to be learned from Glasgow’s Home Office stand-off
By Mike Small Reprinted from The National THE inspirational peaceful protest of Kenmure Street shows not just a model for resisting the racist British Home Office, but a template for self-determination. For a Scotland stuck in perpetual limbo between the democracy it aspires to be and the Scotland stuck…
15 May 2021
Statement re unsuccessful immigration enforcement action
Lawyers acting for the two men are still investigating the full background to the case, Mr Lakhvir Singh and Mr Sumit Sehdev are both in their thirties and of Indian origin. At the time that they were detained neither had active legal representation. A legal observer from Positive Action in…
14 May 2021
Glasgow Says No Pasaran To Home Secretary Priti Patel
Glasgow Protest: Lakhvir Singh was detained along with Sumit Sehdevi when the UK Border Agency ordered a raid on a Glasgow street this morning. With lawyer Jelina Berlow Rahman, Trustee of Positive Action in Housing, who has taken up the cases alongside Latta & Co Solicitors. Campaigners expect further dawn…
13 May 2021
Protesters block dawn raid vans in Glasgow to chants of Let them Go
Commenting on a dawn raid in Glasgow today which led to the local community blocking immigration raid vans, Robina Qureshi, Director of Positive Action in Housing said: “We have seen a brilliant show of support from the local community for their neighbours from immigrant and asylum seeking backgrounds who…
8 May 2021
Don’t say their names – don’t give fascists the oxygen of publicity or a platform …
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was correct when she called a convicted racist “a racist and a fascist” . Indeed, she exercised considerable restraint as the far right thugs droned on about “immigrants flooding this country”. The far right thug is a convicted racist. Formerly with the English…
6 May 2021
Joint Open Letter in Response to the New Plan for Immigration
The Government is asking the public to consult with them on their cruel and unworkable new immigration plans. Compassion, evidence, and 193 refugee and voluntary organisations tell us to fight against the principle of these plans, not help to thrash out the details. Positive Action in Housing is supporting this open…
3 May 2021
Dawn raids against asylum seekers in Glasgow
Right now, in Glasgow, there are families too frightened to sleep for fear of dawn raids on their homes, after a negative decision. They are being terrorised because they have the status of “asylum seeker”.This barbaric practice has no place in a civilised society. 16 years ago,…
2 May 2021
Gaslighting of refugees – Serco style
Today, Thursday 2 May 2019, Govan Law Centre will lodge its appeal against the Court of Session judgement on lock change evictions. The City Council Taskforce Forum on asylum housing will also be meeting in Glasgow City Chambers with Serco. We hope they put Serco in the dock for their latest actions,…