Time and time again. the administration has ignored the civil rights and human rights violations committed against Catholics living in Northern Ireland. We see it in the way the administration gives little. if any. priority in its foreign policy agenda to solving the conflict In Northern Ireland. We saw it with the deportation of Joseph Doherty. and we are seeing it now with the attempt to deport Francis Gildernew from the United States on highly questionable grounds. In April. Mr. Gildernew was arrested by FBI and INS agents for allegedly committing fraud by not disclosing a supposed conviction in Northern Ireland on his green card application. Mr. Speaker. after being tortured for 6 days in 1976. Mr. Gildernew signed a prepared confession stating that he planted a land mine near the hamlet of Benburb and was a member of the IRA. When filling out his green card application to this country. as far as he was concerned. he was innocent of the fraudulent charges a Diplock court convicted him of in a hostile environment on the basis of the forced confession. Mr. Gildernew Is a native of County Tyrone.
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