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Sean Minihane

Immigrant Defender

By Seán Ó Murchu, Contributor
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

In the late '80s and early '90s the Irish Immigration Reform Movement (I.I.R.M.) was a powerful lobbying group for Irish immigrants, working to change U.S. immigration law to provide equal access to all immigrants and to legalize the thousands of illegal Irish immigrants who were in the country already. The following excerpt is from an interview with Sean Minihane, then … [Read more...] about Sean Minihane

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