Support Political Asylum for Malachy McAllister and his Children

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Wednesday June 22, 2005 13:33

by Irish Northern Aid

Support Political Asylum for Malachy McAllister and his Children

Malachy McAllister

Tell Elected Officials: Support Political Asylum for Malachy McAllister and his Children

It is down to the wire for the McAllister family. A judgment from the Court of Appeals on their asylum request is expected any day. However, there is a sincere effort by Congressional representatives to have Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security, intervene in this case and grant the family asylum.

Malachy McAllister and his children, Nicola and Sean, are Irish Catholics from Northern Ireland seeking asylum in the United States based upon their fear of returning home. The McAllisters' request for political asylum has been denied, and they have appealed this decision to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Should their appeal fail, they are in danger of being deported to Northern Ireland. There was an informational briefing regarding the political asylum case of Malachy McAllister of Wallington, New Jersey on June 8th. The briefing provided Congressional representatives and members of their staffs an update on the facts of the case.

http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/irishnorthernaidcommittee/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=828

The McAllister family (Malachy, his wife Bernadette, and their children Gary, Jamie, Nicola and Sean) fled Belfast in 1988 in the wake of an assassination attack on their home by a Loyalist death squad. The loyalists, armed with automatic weapons, nearly succeeded in claiming the lives of the McAllisters' young children.

Bernadette McAllister and her children were initially granted political asylum by Immigration Court in New Jersey; the Federal Judge having found that they had suffered "severe past persecution" because of their political beliefs and because they were Malachy McAllister's family. Malachy's request for asylum was denied as a result of his convictions in Belfast for his part in what he, and his beleaguered community, believed to be a struggle for national liberation.

Unfortunately, Bernadette and her children were stripped of asylum in a controversial decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The BIA, flying in the face of the facts and expert testimony as exhaustively outlined in the Immigration Judge's decision, ruled not only that the McAllisters had failed to demonstrate that they had suffered "severe past persecution" but that they had suffered no persecution at all. It is incomprehensible to any objective observer that a gun attack on the McAllister children, orchestrated by a Loyalist death squad which the British government was found to be "unwilling or unable to control," is anything less than clear evidence of persecution.

http://www.mcallistercampaign.com/home.htm

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Terrorists which the "Friends of Ireland and Israel" forgot to mention

by Eamon MacThaidgh

Sat Jun 25, 2005 06:01

Sure Malachy McAllister is a terrorist, and should be viewed like other terrorists, such as: Nelson Mandela and his followers; or the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB, Polish for the Jewish Fighting Organization) - a World War II resistance movement, which supposedly was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; or the ZZW fighters from second Jewish resistance organisation which also claims responsibility for the attacks on those poor Nazis; or one of the top terrorist leaders of all time- George Washington, who ordered attacks on those poor British soldiers in “the colonies”, not to mention attacks on civilian targets, such as the British merchant ships which were attacked by the American terrorist “privateers”, on the high seas; or Charles DeGaulle and the terrorists of the French Resistance, and many more, who were so evil as to use violence in their persuit of such trivial goals as justice and freedom from occupation and oppression. Send them all to Guantanamo! Even if you have to dig them up from their graves. After all, Afrikanas, Nazis, Brits, Israelis, and the like, must be kept safe from the terrorists.

Sceimhlitheoir?

by Duine

Fri Jun 24, 2005 16:17

Más foras tearmainn géarleanúint, níl sé ceart go maolfadh cosaint i gcoinne na géarleanúna seo an foras.
Molaim dó achomhairc a dhéanamh.

Terrorism in any man's language in wrong

by Friends of Israel and Ireland

Fri Jun 24, 2005 09:14

The desire of Malachy McAllister to continue living with his family would not be so problematic if he had not once been an Irish terrorist.

Why don't you call a spade a spade and stop supporting the terrorist murderers of people in my country? McAllister is a terrorist..

Frankly, we, the Irish people - and not you, plastic paddies of NORAID - don't want people like him, or you. How ironic that many immigrants who deserve to be allowed into Ireland are being stopped at the airports and habours because they are black, and here's this white guy with blood on his hands being sent to Ireland by George W Bush.

Dubya, if you're listening, please put McAllister in an orange jumpsuit on July 12 and send him to the prison in Gitmo. He'll be in good company.

IRA/PLO/Al-Qaeda Are ONE

Another widow and fatherless children thanks to McAllister 's comrades

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