Web Posted: 09/03/2008 12:00 CDT Ex-IRA member says bias behind belated deportation
Pól Brennan:
Hernán Rozemberg - Express-News


The moment border agents in a desolate, brush-laden highway in South Texas asked him to pull over for further questioning, Pól Brennan knew he was in for a long day.

But he never thought he'd end up behind bars in the Rio Grande Valley, waiting to get the boot back to a place he long ago had put out of his mind.

Even though U.S. authorities have known about Brennan, a fugitive militant from Northern Ireland who originally came into this country 24 years ago using another person's passport, they essentially have looked the other way for more than a decade, allowing him to remain in the country in legal limbo.

Brennan, now sitting in a Raymondville immigration prison, said recently he has become the U.S. government's latest immigrant patsy.

“I'm a product of the anti-immigrant bent this administration is pushing,â€