Thanks for showing that Patel and co don’t act for us

WELL done the residents of Kenmure Street, Pollokshields, for coming out in numbers to resist the UK Border Force raid on two asylum seekers on, of all days, Eid al-fitr, the day of celebration to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan (“Police release detained men after hundreds block immigration van”, The Herald, May 14). Well done, too, to Police Scotland for having the decency and common sense to defuse the situation by releasing the men.

The raid, and in particular its timing, shows that this Tory UK Government is as intent as ever on playing the tough guy against those who have fled intolerable situations in their home countries and asked for our compassion. Boris Johnson and Priti Patel act not in my name; obviously not in the names of the residents of Kenmure Street; and, I hope, not in Scotland’s name.

Doug Maughan, Dunblane.

THE UK Home Office has neatly proved that society in Scotland would prefer to make its own rules about immigration and asylum.

Tim Cox, Bern, Switzerland.

SO is it established by precedent now that Police Scotland no longer enforces the law of the land?

John Dunlop, Ayr.