Asylum seekers are taken into detention early in the morning when they are most likely to be at home, and will be foggy as they are awakened from deep sleep. Immigration officials conduct the raid, accompanied by flack-jacketed police. The police arrest males over 18, and handcuff them.

For this community, as for many other asylum seeker communities in the UK, having friends and neighbours disappear is a way of life. And, one day, it will be their door that police and immigration officials knock on at 6am.