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Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin...
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Colorado Department of Local Affairs, Division of Local Government, State Demography Office
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2018.
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The largest source of change in Colorado's population is migration. Each year between 2011 and 2016 between 235,000 and 250,000 people moved into Colorado, and between 160,000 and 196,000 people moved out of Colorado. The defining characteristic of both in-migrants and out-migrants is their age, Colorado in-migrants and out-migrants are most likely to be between 20 and 29 years old. This analysis documents characteristics of in-migrants and out-migrants...
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State of Colorado Attorney General
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2017.
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One of the worst scams targeting immigrant communities involves individuals who claim that, for a substantial fee, they can select, prepare, and file immigration forms, speed up the visa and citizenship process, or even use some "special relationship" with U.S. immigration officials to obtain other benefits. These individuals may call themselves an "immigration specialist," "immigration consultant," "visa consultant," "notary," "notary public," "notario,"...
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State of Colorado Attorney General
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2017.
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En los Estados Unidos, los gobiernos estatales y locales proporcionan muchos servicios públicos a sus electorados, los cuales en su mayoría se proporcionan gratuitamente al público en general. A pesar de que quizás sea necesario hacer una cita para hacer uso de estos servicios, estas citas se proporcionan generalmente sin costo alguno. Desafortunadamente, algunos individuos intentan obtener ganancias ilícitas de estos servicios gratuitos,...
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Agricultural labor report volume 09-02
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Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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[2009]
12) Refugee
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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
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"The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United States, the faraway land of skyscrapers and Nikes, while his identical twin, Raul, never felt that northbound tug. But when Ernesto ends up on the wrong side of the...
18) Dominicana
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Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in...
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