In the week that asylum seekers Florence and Precious Mhango have been served with removal directions from the Border Agency, Glasgow SNP MSP Anne McLaughlin has written to the Home Secretary, Theresa May, offering to fly to Malawi to get the evidence that proves the case for their asylum.

SNP MSP for the South of Scotland Aileen Campbell has today [Wednesday] welcomed the Supreme Court ruling allowing two asylum seekers to seek refuge in the UK on grounds of sexuality.

The SNP has warned that coalition government plans for an immigration cap could be economically damaging for Scotland.

Commenting on the publication of the citizenship points plan by the Home Office SNP Home Affairs spokesperson Pete Wishart MP said it was a move in the right direction but repeated calls for powers over immigration to be devolved to Scotland just as they are in Australia’s states.

Questions have been raised over the use of private jets to deport immigrants after parliamentary questions revealed the cost of chartering aircraft had almost doubled in the last year to more than £8.2million.

SNP Home Affairs Spokesperson and MP for Perth and North Perthshire, Pete Wishart has urged the UK Government to follow the lead of the Obama administration and put an immediate stop to the deportation of widows.

SNP Home Affairs Spokesperson and MP for Perth and North Perthshire, Pete Wishart has called for a break in bureaucracy and an increase in sensitivity to be applied to immigration cases.

UK Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has faced demands to explain why a four-year-old boy with health problems has been imprisoned in Dungavel – despite assurances given by the Scottish Secretary in October 2008 that detention of children at the institution would stop.

News that a Perth resident who faced deportation because his savings dipped £78 below the minimum level set by the Border Agency has won a reprieve have been hailed by Perth and North Perthshire MP, Pete Wishart.

The SNP’s Home Affairs Spokesperson Pete Wishart MP has responded to the Migration Advisory Committee’s draft shortage occupation list for migrants from beyond the EU.