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- <title>
- Oct. 14, 1991: A Chance in the Irish Sweepstakes
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- NATION, Page 27
- A Chance in the Irish Sweepstakes
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- <p> When Fiona McConnell, 24, came to the U.S. from Ireland five
- years ago, she had a one-year visa. Now she is an illegal
- alien, working as a nanny in New York City. Which is why she
- plans to travel this week to Arlington, Va., to mail her
- application for one of the visa slots set aside for Irish
- nationals under the new law. If she gets a green card, McConnell
- says, "I could go to school or get a better job." Given her
- present status, McConnell does not have health insurance. In an
- emergency she would have to depend upon the collections that are
- regularly taken up at Irish pubs around the city. Because of the
- danger of being identified at airport customs as an illegal
- alien, she has been back to Ireland only once since coming to
- the U.S. "When I went through Immigration at Kennedy Airport,
- I was shaking," she recalls. But as far as she's concerned, the
- hardships of the illegal life have been worth it. Says she:
- "America is a great country to be in."
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- </body></article>
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