Mr. Speaker. on April 16. 1992. my constituent. Mr. Francis Gildernew was arrested by FBI and INS agents. With guns drawn. they shackled him in Poughkeepsie. NY. and jailed him In New York City. Why was he arrested? The INS warrant charged him with fraud. Applying for a green card in 1984. he denied ever being convicted of a crime in his home country of Northern Ireland. In 1976. Gildernew had been arrested by the British police. charged with planting a land mine and of being a member of the Irish Republican Army. He was convicted and imprisoned. The conviction was based on a confession extracted from him after brutal interrogation under torture.
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