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Hub detainee deported

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

Donald Browne, a Derry native, was deported on Thursday, Feb. 12, said a spokeswoman for the Boston office of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The other detainees, David Curtis and Damien McCafferty, also Derry natives, were still being held this week but would probably be deported soon, the spokeswoman said.
The three were detained after arriving at Logan airport on a British Airways flight from London. Their stated reason for visiting the U.S. was to attend a wedding.
The three were hit with immigration fraud charges as a result of not revealing prior convictions on visa-entry waiver forms.
All three subsequently entered entered guilty pleas on one count each of “fraudulent use of a visa.”
Browne, 44, was convicted in 1986 of murder, hijacking, unlawful possession of arms and membership in the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
According to a federal affidavit, McCafferty admitted that he had been at one time arrested and had served “six months in jail in Ireland,” while Curtis told federal investigators that he had been at one time convicted in Reading Crown Court in Berkshire, England, of attempted murder.
None of the three men faced any current charges at the time of their arrival in the U.S., but federal immigration law interprets past convictions as a basis for exclusion from the United States unless a specific waiver is granted.

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