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Malachy McAllister, a former INLA member, is facing expulsion from
the U.S. after an immigration court denied his appeal against
deportation. McAllister and his family fled Belfast a little more
than 15 years ago after loyalist gunmen fired shots into their home.
They have lived in New Jersey.
One of his children, 26-year-old Gary, is married to an American citizen, but despite this, he has also been included in the deportation order. The courts recently ruled in favour of the deportation of another former INLA man, John Edward McNicholl, and refused to hear an appeal to suspend McNicholl's deportation. McNicholl was arrested and deported within days of the court's decision. His wife, a U.S. citizen, and two of the couple's three children, also citizens, were forced to follow McNicholl to Ireland. Is it a coincidence that two former INLA men are being victimised in this way? Is this because we in the Irish Republican Socialist Movement don't support the Good Friday Agreement and oppose Bush and Blair's so called 'war on terrorism'? STATEMENTS ENDS |