AN ATTEMPT by the SNP-led Scottish Executive to secure an amnesty for 1,400 asylum-seeking families in Scotland has been rejected by UK ministers, it emerged last night.

Fiona Hyslop, the education secretary, set out the Executive’s approach to asylum seekers yesterday, calling for all families who had been in Scotland since March 2006 to be given leave to remain indefinitely.

Ms Hyslop revealed she had raised the issue of an asylum seeker “amnesty” with Liam Byrne, the UK immigration minister, earlier this week.

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