Overview

• Police, sheriff officers and immigration enforcement entered the woodland site around 8am, removed the encampment and escorted members away in vans, with the operation live-streamed by the group.
• Reports state leader Kofi Offeh, 36, was arrested on suspicion of overstaying, while 21-year-old Kaura Taylor was detained with the reason not yet confirmed.
• A day earlier, Sheriff Peter Paterson ruled the trio cannot return to the original private plot, following a separate order last week banning them from council-owned land they had occupied.
• Scottish Borders Council’s deputy leader Scott Hamilton rejected the group’s ancestral land claim as ludicrous and said coordination with police and the Home Office is ongoing.
• Taylor was reported missing from Dallas in May, her mother has urged deportation and welfare checks are under way by Police Scotland, with some reports indicating her baby was taken into care and is being returned to the US.