Ashcroft's Gestapo at work.

[Another Bill C.]

Note: blanket permission to reprint is given by the author.

The Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), under the
authority of Attorney General John Ashcroft, defying a ruling
from the United States Court of Appeals, has laid siege to the
home of Bernadette McAllister and her children, Sean and
Nicola, and has launched a manhunt for her husband Malachy.

On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, Bernadette and her children
were making preparations to celebrate Thanksgiving in the New
Jersey town of Wallington. That was until Bernadette received
the shock decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals that
she and her children were to be stripped of their hard-won
status of political asylum and deported within 30 days back to
Belfast. Worse still, her husband Malachy was in grave danger
of being shackled and deported immediately.

As the McAllisters raced to file their appeals and seek the
protection of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,
around 20 DHS agents surrounded their home in the early hours
of Friday morning, and two agents barged their way into her
home looking for her husband. The last time armed government
agents descended on the McAllister home was in 1988 in Belfast
when a pro-British Loyalist death-squad came to kill Malachy
and launched a sustained gun attack on her children and their
grandmother. A federal judge found, as a result, that
Bernadette and the children had suffered "severe persecution"
and granted them political asylum in the United States.

The Federal agents who raided her home refused to identify
themselves and still have not produced a warrant for her
husband's arrest. Nevertheless they threatened to arrest
Bernadette and her children for "obstruction of justice" when
she attempted to serve them with a court-stamped copy of her
motion seeking a stay of the detention and removal of her
husband.

Despite the fact that the Court of Appeals immediately issued
a temporary stay of removal pending its decision on this case,
the DHS remains staked out at the McAllister home and
continues, unlawfully, to treat Malachy McAllister as a
"fugitive" from the very removal order which the Court has
stayed! More disturbingly, the DHS continues to threaten
Bernadette with criminal arrest for "obstruction of justice."
The irony is glaring. The only people in this case
obstructing the wheels of justice are John Ashcroft's DHS
agents.

The McAllister family's case enjoys the widespread support of
many in the Irish-American community and its media, among
groups such as the Irish American Unity Conference and the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, as well as the support of many
Congressional leaders. However, the family remains in grave
danger and we must keep the pressure on until the siege is
lifted.

Call Attorney General John Ashcroft and demand to know why
Malachy McAllister is being treated as a fugitive, and why the
DHS are staking out the McAllister home in the run-up to
Thanksgiving, when their appeal has been accepted by a United
States Court of Appeals. Call your Senator and
Representative, and ask that they sign on to a letter from
Stephen R. Rothman (D, NJ; 9th District) instructing the DHS
to allow Malachy McAllister to return home without fear of
arrest and detention.

DEMAND THAT THE SIEGE BE LIFTED NOW!

Hon. John Ashcroft
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Tel: [phone]

If you wish to send a donation to help defray the legal costs
in what may be an extensive legal battle, please make checks
payable to Smith Dornan & Shea PC, mark as "McAllister Legal
Defense Fund", and send to:

Smith Dornan & Shea PC
355 Lexington Avenue
17th Floor
New York, NY 10017


WWW.SDS-LAW.COM
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]



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[GainesT1958]

1. They've got it confused...

The D.H.S. is under Gov. Tom Ridge. Someone needs to tell them that--even if they ARE using tactics that John Ashcroft would be proud of!:mad:

On the other hand, they could be FBI agents--and then they WOULD be under the Justice Dept.--and could be doing by misusing the Patriot Act, the way Ashcroft likes to do.

First, LEGAL immigrants have no rights in this country. Next, it'll be citizens. If Ahscroft is not effectively made an issue unto himself next year, we've only ourselves to blame for what he'll do to us!:grr:

B-)

[Code_Name_D]

2. Activist moblize! NOW!

If Ashcroft wants to stake out this home. Then we need to stake out the stake out. Web cams needs to be set up ASAP if not sooner. Round the clock vigulence.

If we do not draw the line here, than you may as well pack your bags for the consetration camps.

For America's sake. Moblise!!!

[DUreader]

3. kick