 A dawn raid to detain two asylum seekers and potentially deport them has been disrupted and blocked by protesters in Glasgow dawn raids are opposed by the Scottish government but under the control of the UK Home Office the raids were seen as particularly provocative because they took place on the morning of Eid. Now we can take you through some footage, you've got people there gathering around the van, other people sitting in the street and that means the immigration enforcement van cannot move on. You can see there, there are already police arriving to try and manage the situation. Now, that was an incredibly successful move for those 10 or so people you could see in that video to make because after that scene, what you had was callouts on social media hundreds and thousands even people arrived to that street and ended up forming a cordon around the immigration removal van. It was not able to move for the scale of the protest and the type of protests that took place and we can show you the following clip. This is the clip the police ostensibly trying to make their way through the crowd to escort a paramedic. So at the end of that clip you could see the policeman at the front telling the protesters about the paramedic and pointing and saying that's why we want to come through. It's not however that clear that the police were needed to escort a paramedic through a nonviolent protest. Now according to some who have seen the police may have been using the paramedic as an excuse to get amongst the protesters afterwards the paramedic was let through without the police escort. What you could see there was the scale of the protest, lots of people sitting down to stop the police getting through and you can see hundreds of people already outside that van. Now not long after that clip we just showed you lawyers addressed protesters and police saying the only way the crowd would disperse is if immigration enforcement released the two men held in the van. And it was confirmed the protest had been successful when the police released the following statement. In order to protect the safety, public health and well-being of all people involved in the tension and subsequent protest in Kenmore Street Pollock Shields today, Police Scotland has following a suitable risk assessment taken the operational decision to release the men detained by UK immigration enforcement back into their community meantime. That decision was announced to the crowd by lawyers present before the men were released. We have an agreement. It is in writing these men will be released safely. They will not be arrested. There will be no enforcement action against them. And I have an agreement that police will form a cordon around the van with myself and the two men and then we will be walked to the mosque where they will be released. An incredibly moving image of solidarity there. The men who were detained, fanking the protesters who had prevented their detention. Now one of those detainees, Lakvir Singh, spoke to ITV. Do you have anything that you want to say to the people who came to support you today? Thank you very, very much. Thank you. Speaking in his native Punjabi, Lakvir then told us what happened. I was taken unannounced from my flat. They barged in and took me into the van. I was anxious and upset wondering how I would be treated at the detention centre. I'm so happy that my fate brought me to live here in Glasgow where the people are so connected that they'll come out onto the streets to help one of their own. Now it's all a clear example of direct action getting the goods and the power of solidarity. What's also interesting is that the mainstream politicians across most of Scotland's parties, other than the Conservatives, spoke out against the raids. Very different to what you would likely see if that had happened in England. So Scottish Labour, the Greens and the SNP government all opposed the Home Office's actions on Thursday. After the police announced the release of the two detainees, Scotland's Justice Minister Hamza Youssef released this statement. To take this action at any time is unwelcome in Scotland to do so in the heart of the Muslim community on the day of Eid, where there have been outbreaks of Covid is reckless and dangerous health and frankly looks like it was intended to provoke. I've spent hours trying to get the Home Office to abandon their operation. First they passed me off to a civil servant and when none of their eight ministers would take my call and be objected after that, they eventually gave us the most junior ranking Home Office minister to speak to the First Minister and I. And to say he was unhelpful again would be an understatement. He allegedly told us that they would continue to enforce immigration law as they saw fit. Now I'm pleased and delighted in fact that Police Scotland, who of course have operational independence, Police Scotland have taken the decision in the interest of public safety and the interest of public health to release these two individuals. But immigration policy is of course reserved to the Home Office and although these two individuals, and I'm pleased they have been released on this occasion, the hostile environment created by the UK government's immigration policies is something that is simply not welcome here in Scotland. And I will be urging the Home Secretary to speak to me and the Home Office to speak to me and to engage with the Scottish Government so they simply do not see a repeat of these scenes, but more importantly to tell them that their hostile environment is just not welcome in Scotland. That was Humza Youssef, the Justice Minister for Scotland. Now you probably already have recognised that that's a very different way of speaking to the UK Home Office. Just to confirm that, a source at the Home Office told the BBC Newsnight's Lewis Goodall on Thursday night it is completely unacceptable for a mob to stop the lawful removal of people living in our country illegally. We are 100% back the front line in removing those with no right to be here. So a very dismissive, fairly unpleasant in my reading statement from the UK Home Office. Now to discuss the protest, I'm joined by Rosa Sali. Rosa was born in Iraqi Kurdistan and moved to Scotland as a refugee when she was 12. You were also at the protest yesterday. Rosa, thank you so much for joining us today. Hi Michael, thank you very much for having me. Yes, I was at the protest and very overwhelmed by the people organising and winning. I think it was a huge victory for Glasgow and throughout the world, I think everyone's looking towards Glasgow. Yeah, what was it like, the demonstration? I mean, it seemed to grow sort of exponentially, but it wasn't particularly organised was my sense. Well, I mean it couldn't have been organised because this was a spontaneous protest really wasn't it? Someone just noticed a van in the street, put it on social media and then it spread by word of mouth and ultimately you had hundreds, potentially thousands of people blocking an immigration van. Yeah, I think initially the van was stopped by a man called Declan, which I have come aware of that he actually was under the van for over eight hours. It wasn't organised in such ways because everything was by social media. People were sharing videos that this is a removal actually happening right this moment. However, people were contacting each other to come along and support and stop the enforcement by the Home Office. So that kind of organisation actually happened after later on and community coming together. The neighbourhoods in that street in Polo, in Polo Shield, they all came together. And it's a very multicultural part of Glasgow and different communities live there. It was just wonderful how hundreds of people coming together, shoulder to shoulder, standing against the illegal enforcement, I would say, of asylum seekers because it seems that they didn't have any legal advice to asylum seekers. And once we were there, there were legal advice actually given to the asylum seekers and we tried to communicate through one of the police officers there at the time to communicate and sign some forms so they can have legal representatives. You are incredibly well placed to speak about the politics of migration in Scotland because you arrived in Scotland as a child as a refugee. As I said in the introduction, you campaigned as a school child to prevent one of your friends being deported. You now work for an SNP MP. You've stood to be an MSP. So you really know both sides of this equation. You know the politics of the SNP, the governing party, and you know what it's like to be a refugee in Scotland. What can you tell me about the politics of migration in Scotland? And especially, I mean, from someone in London, from England watching all of this, it seems like whilst the SNP don't have control of the migration system, the politics of migration in Scotland is much more humane than it is south of the border. Do you think that's a fair assessment? Yes, I think that's the first statement that you've made. Our politics is much different and the SNP, of course, the party that I represent and support, I would say we want to create a system that is based on fairness and dignity where humans are treated with human rights and there are no raids and there are no detention and we have made statements that we will remove then give all detention centre once we become an independent country. Would the SNP, I suppose just to clarify for our audience, the SNP don't have control over migration policy. That's currently a competence held in Westminster, but obviously the SNP wanted ultimately an independent Scotland but presumably also in a devolved UK if the UK were to stay together. What would the SNP's policy be? Because lots of the opposition to what happened yesterday, some of it was, I suppose, somewhat ambiguous. Were they opposing it because it was on Eid? Were they opposing it because it was a dawn raid? Or were they opposing it because they oppose detention and deportations in principle? The finer one would be the more radical, fundamental position. Is it your understanding that if the SNP had control over migration policy, they'd stop deportations in Scotland altogether? Yes, I would say that there will be no deportation in Scotland and there will be a humane system based on human rights and dignity. A system where actually the case worker would speak to the asylum who was claiming asylum to stay in this country so there will be more communication between the asylum seeker and their case worker. So it's more humane, more direct, more communication. At this moment in the current system, there is no communication between the decision maker and the asylum person that's claiming asylum in this country. So there's a disconnect between the people really in that question. So it's very problematic the way the system is set up and unfortunately I do not believe there will be any reform because I have been experienced. I came to this country as a asylum seeker and I'm grateful because of my friends and my community campaigning for me to stay here and it wasn't given to me that easily and because of that I think I see the failure of the system, how it's flawed and we need to fix it. However, I do not believe in fixing it because of the Tory government of Preeti Patel. They want to meet targets of deportation and it's just numbers to them. There is no humanity in their system and of course it is a hostile environment they are creating for many asylum seekers. At this moment the immigration rules are becoming more restrictive day by day. So if you go back 10 years ago, people could have applied for a leave to remain in this country indefinitely if you stayed in this country for 10 years. However, now they have extended to 20 years. So you can see that's just one example. There are many, many examples. Even family reunion, people who've married abroad, if you're rich enough you can marry someone from abroad but if you're not rich enough, unfortunately, you cannot fall in love with someone abroad. This is the immigration system we have in place and every aspect of it you look into there's restrictions and barriers and at the end of the day is people's lives that have been affected.