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...During peak periods when there is a scarcity of taxis, this allows the driver to get more than one fare," said Mike P. Holland, Director of Operations of the Brattle Transportation Services...
...wife (her name is America) lives with their three sons. It's been five years since the itinerant Luis first slipped across the border. "I haven't been able to accomplish what I wanted to do here," he says wanly. "I wanted to get a steady job as a driver and bring my family here...
Like many other illegals, Luis is caught in the familiar catch-22: employers are loath to hire him because he lacks a driver's license, and he cannot get a driver's license because he has no Social Security card. So he watches his dream die a little each day. "I feel like I'm not worth anything," he says. "But I have to stick...
...building trades as a "J.F.K. carpenter," as the new Irish arrivals at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport were called. "As soon as you get off the plane they hand you a toolbox and you go to work." He has also moonlighted as a fiacre driver in Central Park and a boxer in Atlantic City, New Jersey, although his real ambition is someday to be a cop or fireman...
...tightly knit Irish community, where word of mouth substitutes for Help Wanted ads, there is always plenty of work, and Colm's income has hovered around $30,000 a year. Yet he lacks the important little things that validate life in America. Though he has a legal driver's license, his Social Security number is invented and his apartment is rented in the name of an ex- girlfriend. "The thing of it is, I've been here since I was 15 years old, I've worked hard, and I've never committed a crime," he says. "This is my home...