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Irish Reaching Out to Help Others

By Tom Deignan

Summer 2021

September 10, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Siobhan Dennehy’s job was already plenty challenging, as St. Patrick’s Day 2020 approached. “There were over a thousand changes made to U.S. immigration law,” noted Dennehy, a Dublin native, and Executive Director of the New York-based Emerald Isle Immigration Center (EIIC). As immigration advocates across the country worked to make sense of these legal changes, they … [Read more...] about Irish Reaching Out to Help Others

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