my inpression is that most LI repubs are against ILLEGAL immigration. recently, a candidate ran for the town board in huntington. this guy came out very strongly for crack-downs on ILLEGAL immigration and on the landlords who are profitting illegally off of them.
newsday, the local liberal paper, ran an editorial right before the election calling him a racist, and he was easily defeated by the incumbent dems, who had lots of money from the landlords.
Many of the landlords of the apartment buildings are absentee RINOs living in Garden City and elsewhere in New York far removed from their affordable housing roach motels. They're anything BUT affordable BTW. I won't speak harsh about the people living there. When I did house-to-house for the fire department they gave the most donations.
Do you realize your first sentence is at odds with the rest of your paragraph? What makes you think LI Republicans are against ILLEGAL immigration?