An MSP has called for changes to the way asylum seekers and their families are treated in Scotland.
Sandra White, SNP MSP for Glasgow, is seeking an end to the controversial practice of dawn raids and for those asylum seekers who have had children in Scotland to be allowed to stay.
She made the plea on the day that the Independent Asylum Commission, set up to carry out an independent review of the system, arrived in Glasgow to hear evidence on the removal of asylum seekers.
Ms White, speaking earlier on BBC Radio Scotland, said the system should be "much more humanitarian, and fairer".
She said the practice of detaining children in the Dungavel immigration removal centre in South Lanarkshire should be ended.
She also said there should be an end to dawn raids and added: "I do think we should seriously look at a moratorium for people whose children have been born here.
"I do believe if kids have been born in this country and been here for five or six years we really sincerely have to look at a moratorium."
Ms White said she hoped the Westminster government, which is responsible for immigration, would listen when the commission produces its findings.
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