 The meeting was arranged after a protest last week |
A promised meeting between a top immigration official and protesters has been halted by a government minister. Protesters staged a sit-in at the UK Immigration Service HQ in Glasgow last week against dawn raids used to deport failed asylum seekers.
The campaigners ended their protest after six hours when they secured a meeting with assistant director Rolf Toolin on Monday.
Immigration Minister Tony McNulty stopped the meeting at the last minute.
About 30 protesters, including Socialist MSP Tommy Sheridan and Nationalist MSP Sandra White, took part in the blockade last Wednesday.
They managed to close the centre from 0900 GMT to 1500 GMT.
Forced removal
After negotiations with police they agreed to leave quietly on the understanding that they would meet Mr Toolin on Monday.
Mr Sheridan branded the move to stop the meeting "a serious breach of democracy".
He had said the protest was to highlight the continued inhumanity of forced removal.
It came after a dawn raid on the Glasgow home of a failed asylum-seeking Kosovan family.
The Vucaj family had been arrested and taken to the Yarlswood Centre in Bedfordshire, before being deported.
The five members of the family, including three children, had lived in Scotland for five years.
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