{"id":1361,"date":"2022-05-07T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T13:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2022-05-07T13:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T13:50:56","slug":"woke-mob-surrounds-site-of-immigration-raid-forces-home-office-to-abandon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/woke-mob-surrounds-site-of-immigration-raid-forces-home-office-to-abandon\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke Mob Surrounds Site Of Immigration Raid, Forces Home Office To Abandon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anti-borders activists have claimed victory over Immigration Enforcement officers in Edinburgh, Scotland, after surrounding the site of a reported raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Home Office law enforcement agency was reportedly attempting to detain people at a restaurant named Beirut, but a crowd of activists assembled with some rapidity, forcing bus routes to be diverted and the police force to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think any human is illegal and I think we should be supporting everyone and everyone we can,\u201d said one activist named \u2018Lizzie\u2019 in comments to local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen everyone heard about what was happening, we just dropped everything and moved,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately the Immigration Officers left the scene under police escort empty-handed as the crowd chanted slogans including \u201cno justice no peace, no racist police\u201d, \u201cshame on you\u201d, and \u201csay it loud, say it clear: immigrants are welcome here\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfa5Here\u2019s the moment Home office staff left the property on Marshall Street in Edinburgh where they were attempting to detain residents. <br><br>\ud83d\udde3\u201dShame on you\u201d chant the crowd that forced them to abandon their efforts.<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QRH018rVeg\">pic.twitter.com\/QRH018rVeg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lewis Michie (@LewisMichie0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LewisMichie0\/status\/1522298613921112064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>\u201cIt is unacceptable for people to attempt to block legitimate actions of law enforcement as they work to remove those with no right to live or work in the UK,\u201d the Home Office said in a statement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-borders activists have claimed victory over Immigration Enforcement officers in Edinburgh, Scotland, after surrounding the site of a reported raid. The Home Office law enforcement agency was reportedly attempting to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Woke Mob Surrounds Site Of Immigration Raid, Forces Home Office To Abandon\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/woke-mob-surrounds-site-of-immigration-raid-forces-home-office-to-abandon\/#more-1361\" aria-label=\"More on Woke Mob Surrounds Site Of Immigration Raid, Forces Home Office To Abandon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[16,37,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}