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Ryan RulesGranddaughter of an immigrant takes over at Emerald Isle Center
February 15, 2011
By Staff Reporter
By Harry Keaney
Facing into a new top job is a challenge in itself for most people. But Carolyn Ryan, the new executive director of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, may also be facing into a crisis in the making.
Despite the various visa programs of the last decade or more, Ryan, and others in the EIIC, say there still remains many undocumented Irish immigrants in the U.S.
In an interview with the Echo, her first since being appointed last month as executive director of the EIIC, Ryan pointed out that: