Gabriel Megahey was always the first to get official notifications. Maybe that’s because he lived on the East Coast and Matthew Morrison lived in St. Louis. Maybe official notifications, like fashion, take a while to get here.

Several weeks ago, Megahey received notice that he was to appear at an immigration office for a biometric check-in. New fingerprints. Maybe new photos. Not long after, Morrison received the same notice. Both men were former members of the Irish Republican Army. Both had lived in this country for decades. They shared the same murky immigration status. Deportation proceedings had been stayed in 1997 as part of the Good Friday Peace Accords in Northern Ireland. The accords were engineered by President Bill Clinton.

I remember being at Morrison’s house in University Ci

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