Librado Romero/The New York Times
Dave Drew, picketing at Horseblock Road and North Ocean Avenue, is among many in Farmingville who have taken to the streets in protest."A new wave of Hispanic immigrants had swept Long Island, and many residents were furious about the overcrowded homes and lines of day laborers they saw in their towns"
If they think that's bad, wait until the politicians start taxing the heck out of them. We're dying here in Vegas!
My old (REALLY OLD) home. Go Sachem!
Yeah, cause it should be illegal to work if you don't pay an organization monthly dues to acquire and keep a job.
Is the local GOP on the right side of this issue? It seems as if the Democrats are seizing the initiative, at least according to the NY Times portrayal.
The GOP on immigration:
"Paul Tonna of Huntington, a Republican member of the Suffolk County Legislature, is a veteran of these wars. He defended day laborers, tried unsuccessfully to pass legislation to set up a hiring hall for them and earned many enemies in the process."
The Democrats on immigration:
"It's been ignored, totally ignored," said Mr. Levy, a Democrat who was elected on a platform of fiscal austerity and better management of the county, on the eastern end of Long Island, and its 1.4 million residents. "It's led to workers being exploited, houses being overcrowded and legitimate businesses going under. There's an undercurrent of frustration within the majority of Suffolk residents."
"But few ideas over the years have drawn as much fire as the one Mr. Levy first broached publicly about three weeks ago to give Suffolk police officers the authority to detain illegal immigrants taken into custody for a variety of offenses. After a meeting last week with representatives of Hispanic groups, Mr. Levy changed his plan, proposing instead to give corrections officers broader powers in enforcing immigration laws and access to federal databases. He said he would also ask Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to assign three federal agents to the county to help identify and deport illegal immigrants in police custody."
If the NY Times is accurately portraying the situation, and the Democrats have seized the leadership from the GOP on this issue, wait until Hillary gets a hold of this! We will be hearing about her "partnering with local officials" to control illegal immigration on Long Island. She could ride this wave straight to the White House.
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I am not surprised that they would react more stridently than other areas of the country. Suburban communities here in the metro Seattle area are filled with apartment complexes with large immigrant populations. I went to a community center near Microsoft's campus two weeks ago where a large gathering of Mexican day laborers were having some sort of "know your rights" event. Nobody protests that sort of thing out here.
But laborers and advocacy groups say the new policies and aggressive rhetoric are coded attempts to drive Latino immigrants underground or off Long Island. They see parallels between policies denying black families homes in Levittown after World War II and a proposed law in Suffolk County asking federal officials to enforce immigration laws.
** IT is NOT the same thing!!!!!! OMG these people are something else *LOL*
I can remember driving down Horseblock Road into Farmingville and seeing many people hanging around on the corners and running to any vehicle that would stop.
"It is the latest knot in Long Island's wrenching struggle to digest the thousands of Hispanic immigrants'
Thousands....he he he he....wait until they are like California, where we have several MILLIONS!!!!
I love the last paragraph where the gal said"They obviously don't want us around"
One word of English they refuse to learn is "legal".
LOL, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Now if we can only convince a few million of our illegals in Texas that Long Island is Azatalan Norte, and the real promised land, maybe things will improve - for Texas.
I Hate the NY Slimes. This issue has nothing to do with race, for me. If it was hundreds of 1930's style caucasian hobos standing on my street every morning I would still be against it.
East coast illegals ping - lots of frustration in Long Island, too.
Where is the President's "Capital" he says he is going to spend? He hasn't spent it on the Specter Chairmanship, not on defending the boy scouts, not on stopping drivers licenses for illegals and not for controlling our borders.
On WHAT will he spend it?
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"Suffolk police and corrections officers say, they are prohibited from asking immigrants whether they are in the country legally."
That's the same line we hear everywhere in the country. Pure insanity!
"If they are moving us from one place to another, it obviously means they don't want us around."
Well take a freakin' hint!
While this is going on, police in the State of New Jersey has been directed by the U.S. Immigration Services not to take any actions against illegal aliens.
People should stop connecting illegal aliens to any specific ethnic group.
Ethnicity is not the issue here, illegality and border security is.
Hispanics helped put Bush over the margin in the last election and of all new immigrant groups, Hispanics provide the most fertile soil for recruiting new Republicans - also non-Islamic Asians.
Prohibited by whom?
Not really. Just people standing up to the attacks from unbridled immigration that are ruining neighboorhoods, cities, towns, states and this country.