The Seamus Culleton story, originally thought of as an embarrassment for the Trump administration, is fast turning into the equivalent of a moderately-sized win on the national lottery for US immigration officials.
When Culleton called LiveLine last week (a decision, if he has any brains, he must now surely regret), the story was clean and simple: Here was a well-to-do Irish person, who had gone to America and built a good life for himself. No crimes. A business founded. A wife acquired. In many ways – as I wrote at the time – he was the model immigrant, absent the trifling matter that he had originally gained access to the country by breaking the terms of his 90-day tourist entry visa a decade ago.
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