Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Rift on immigration exposed after UK minister defends dawn raids / Scotsman, 17 Oct 2005

http://mail.google.com/mail/h/1rr03bc33ahwu/?th=10700494b136863b&v=c
"Tony McNulty, the UK immigration minister, exposed a serious rift between Holyrood and Westminster yesterday when he defended the use of dawn raids to remove failed asylum seekers. Mr McNulty stressed that dawn raids would continue, insisted that they were neither heavy-handed nor inhumane and condemned some of the criticism of the system as 'intemperate'. The minister's blunt refusal to accept there was anything wrong with the system revealed a major difference of opinion with the Scottish Executive, particularly as his unapologetic approach was in marked contrast to the way Scottish ministers have addressed the issue. "