[Marxism] IRSP: McAllister Family on Brink of Deportation

[Danielle Ni Dhighe <danielle@xxxxxxxx>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

22 November 2003
Irish Republican Socialist Party

McAllister Family on Brink of Deportation

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'?

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