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14 May, 1800 UTC: Coming to the United States

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Gloria Roa Bodin
Gloria Roa Bodin
Immigration attorney and VOA favorite Gloria Roa Bodin returns to T2A to answer questions about how to come to the United States.

Gloria has been helping immigrants in Miami, Florida for nearly 30 years. Her area of expertise includes visas for those she describes as extraordinary ability individuals, especially professionals with advanced degrees and internationally acclaimed artists.

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07 May, 1800 UTC: A Silent Tsunami: World Food Crisis

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Hundreds of people, angry over rising cost of food, block a key road connecting Jalalabad to Kabul, demand action from the government to bring down prices
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Jennifer Parmelee

People wait as WFP staff unload food aid for residents of Kibera slum, at Woodley stadium in Nairobi, Kenya, 15 Jan 2008
People wait as WFP staff unload food aid for residents of Kibera slum, at Woodley stadium in Nairobi, Kenya, 15 Jan 2008

We were talking to Jennifer Parmelee, a Washington Spokesperson for the World Food Program about the global food crisis. The U.N. World Food Program says high food prices are creating the agency’s biggest challenge in its 45-year history.

WFP calls the crisis a silent tsunami that threatens to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger.

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