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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-15T00:12:50.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gbnews.com",
  "tags": [
    "Seamus Culleton described the conditions of the camp",
    "Marco Rubio warns European leaders mass migration is 'a crisis destabilising the West'",
    "Peter Mandelson ordered to testify in US investigation into Jeffrey Epstein links",
    "Man SHOOTS himself as three detained following disappearance of Nancy Guthrie",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nUndocumented Irish migrants in the US have been told to steer clear of St Patrick's Day celebrations amid fears of an immigration crackdown.\n\nIrish-American lawyers and politicians have issued the warning after a second Irishman detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) found his case challenged last week in the courts.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nFocus has increased on Irish detainees after Seamus Culleton described the conditions of the camp he was in as \"like a modern-day concentration camp\".\n\nThe Boston-based immigrant was detained by Ice last year while applying for a green card and was taken to a detention centre in El Paso, Texas.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nJames P Cavanaugh, an attorney and county commissioner in Omaha, Nebraska, said there were concerns about Ice's activities last year during Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo.\n\nMr Cavanaugh, who works with people seeking to gain rights to overseas citizenships, said Ice agents attended public celebrations of the holiday.\n\nHe told The Times: “Folks who have maybe not perfect documentation would be very, very leery to go out to St Patrick’s Day; of course, there is a huge turnout of Irish, Irish-Americans, Irish everything.\n\n\"There’ll be hundreds of thousands, if not millions, nationwide coming out and it’ll be very interesting to see how that plays out.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHe added there was a real fear Ice agents could attend St. Patrick's Day events \"and just start taking people down\", describing the immigration agency as \"very aggressive\".\n\nMr Cavanaugh said he had heard anecdotes of some Irish groups having problems gaining visas to enter America for the holiday.\n\nBrian O’Dwyer, chairman emeritus and founder of the Emerald Isle Immigration Centre, said he personally knows families separated as a result of Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.\n\nHe said: \"There’s definitely been fathers brought back to Ireland and teenage kids and the mother here in the States. The mother has decided to stay, the kids are Americans.\n\n### LATEST US NEWS\n\n\n\n\n  * Marco Rubio warns European leaders mass migration is 'a crisis destabilising the West'\n  * Peter Mandelson ordered to testify in US investigation into Jeffrey Epstein links\n  * Man SHOOTS himself as three detained following disappearance of Nancy Guthrie\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"They have their friends, they have their life here. The question of what you do with the kids? Send them back to Ireland, or try and maintain their house here.\"\n\nIce figures revealed there were 12 Irish citizens in its custody up until November 23 last year.\n\nThe number of Irish citizens deported in the last year, meanwhile, has surged by nearly 80 per cent.\n\nSome 107 Irish citizens have been removed from the US between October 1, 2024, and September 13 last year.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nDaniel James Cummins, 36, from Balinteer in Dublin, is an example of another Irishman held by Ice.\n\nMr Cummins is being held in Golden State Annex, one of Ice's six California detention facilities, and represented by Robert Cummings.\n\nMr Cummings has now been ordered by a California federal judge to explain why he shouldn't face sanctions over potential AI references and hallucinated case citations.\n\nCummings told the Sunday Times the issue was being rectified and that the filings in question referred to cases his office had handled.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHe claimed the conditions inside Mr Cummins's detention centre were difficult, with detainees being \"shoulder to shoulder\".\n\nMicheal Martin, the Taoiseach, will visit Washington next next month for St Patrick's Day events.\n\nGovernment sources believe it is unlikely the topic of Ice will come up, with more focus being placed on routes to \"regularise\" the status of undocumented Irish people, as deportations date back to Obama's administration.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "Irish illegal migrants urged to steer clear of US St Patrick's Day celebrations amid fears of Ice crackdown"
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