A MUM from Bridgeton is reportedly facing deportation after campaigners said she was taken from her home in a dawn raid by immigration officials.

They have now blockaded the Home Office enforcement team office in Ibrox, where Beverley Vaanda Kanjii and her 14-year-old son are said to be held.

A spokesman for LGBT Unity, a group highlighting the presence of LGBT refugees and activists in Glasgow, said they were allowing office workers to leave but preventing a bus with Beverley and son on from leaving.

He said they understand the two were to be flown to London today and deported on Thursday.

He said Beverley came to the UK in 2013 from Namibia and claimed asylum on the same day as arriving.

He added: "Beverley and her son fled Namibia due to the verbal and physical abuse suffered due to her sexuality.

"Beverley had previously experienced forced marriage and had to live in secrecy, later being abused by her community with no protection from the Namibian state. Beverley and her son are in immediate danger of violence on account of her sexuality if forcibly removed to Namibia."

He said she was a valued member of LGBT Unity and had been at a community event at the Kinning Park complex at the weekend.

Beverley is reportedly due to be deported on the same day as NUS Scotland’s Asylum and Refugee Officer, Lord Elias Mensah Apetsi.

He has been told by home office officials that he will be flown back to the country he fled ten years ago.

Students and politicians have joined a campaign calling for the UK Government to halt Lord's deportation and will today stage demonstrations outside the Scotland Office and Home Office.

Strathclyde University masters student Lord - who has a three-year-old son living in Glasgow - was detained on Friday March 11 after reporting to the Border and Immigration Agency in Brand Street, Glasgow.

He is required to do so every month as part of his asylum agreement.

But this time he was taken into custody after it emerged that a fresh application for Leave to Remain had not been submitted on time.