An Irish refugee claimant fighting to stay in Canada with his wife and four young children has been arrested and is being held in a Toronto detention center.
Malachy McAllister, 37, was taken into custody on last week, as ordered by an immigration adjudicator, said Kevin Sack, a spokesperson for Citizenship and Immigration Canada,
Reached at the family’s home in Cambridge last night, his wife said McAllister was taken into custody because of the death of his guarantor, a family member who secured his release from custody.
There is also a civil matter which is related to her husband’s arrest, she said. “There’s no charges or nothing,” said McAllister’s wife, who refused to give her first name,
The immigration department wants to deport McAllister to Northern Ireland because of his prior association there with the Irish National Liberation Army, an outlawed political group.
McAllister, who has been held at the Metro West Detention Center since Wednesday, is to appear in a Cambridge court Aug 17.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 11, 1995
