Mr. Speaker. I rise today to express my dismay at the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold the deportation of Irishman Joe Doherty and deny him a fair hearing on this political asylum claim. Joe Doherty has been imprisoned here in America for nearly 8 years. having never been charged in an American court with committing a crime. That is unprecedented in American history. and I might add. frightening. During his 8 years of battle within the United States court system. Joe Doherty was sustained by a strong belief that here. in America. he would surely get a fair chance to tell his side of the storya chance to make people understand the poverty and ridicule his family faced simply because they were Catholics subjected to discrimination in the North of Ireland.
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