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...coming forward to report their relatives missing meant attracting the attention of legal authorities and risking deportation. For the families of those working off the books, it was even more difficult to confirm their relative’s death. If a family could confirm a relatives death, compensation and relief were still sometimes denied if the family members were not citizens. Many of those outside the U.S. were in poor communication with their relatives in New York because of the conditions of illegal immigration, making it harder to recognize when someone was truly gone. Rosario Arrazola explained...
Samantha Aezen, a New Yorker who served as a Red Cross volunteer assisting with the relief efforts following the attacks, said she came down to Ground Zero with a group of friends, some of whom had lost loved ones on Sept...
...tent at the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island, the site where debris from the World Trade Center was transferred and sifted through in the search for the bodies of those lost on Sept. 11. He also spent time in the tent at Ground Zero last March, praying with relief workers...
...softness, just to get some relief, just to get close to something that gives a little. A crack in the concrete above her is stingy with the light, allowing just a glare. Slowly the hours pass, and she sleeps on and off. Now the glare dims. Nightfall...
...Instead, the weak get weaker, and hope is fading that relief will come from an economic rebound. Government economists on Aug. 30 estimated that the country generated zero GDP growth in the first quarter, revising an earlier estimate of a 1.4% gain. Ken Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia, predicts no growth at all in calendar year 2002. "The only way to be optimistic about the Japanese economy," he says, "is to turn the charts upside down...