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Home Office urged to close controversial refugee mother and baby unit in Glasgow
#FreedomToCrawl campaign makes fresh calls to remove new and expectant asylum-seeker mothers from cramped accommodation in the city
Activists from Stand Up to Racism hold a demonstration outside the Home Office's Glasgow Immigration Enforcement Reporting Centre in July 2020

REFUGEE rights campaigners have urged the Home Office and its contractors to close a controversial mother and baby unit in Glasgow that has seen women removed from private accommodation in the community. 

The #FreedomToCrawl campaign, launched in January as a coalition of support groups, has made fresh calls to remove new and expectant asylum-seeker mothers from cramped accommodation in the city, with some families having entered the unit in the past fortnight.

Since January, residents have repeatedly voiced their concerns about the mother and baby unit, run by Home Office contractor Mears, which remains in operation. 

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