Posted on 11/29/2004 5:16:38 PM PST by mhking
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
Did you have to pay?
I'm sure there is some hidden agenda. Something that benefits Hillary or some other Dem, in an underhanded way.
Encourage a third party anti-immigration conservative to run and draw votes from the Rove-backed GOP nominee in 2008? Set the stage for Hillary to shift to the right on immigration, and challenge Rove's conventional wisdom?
I find it hard to believe that the NY Times is in it to benefit the beleaguered residents of Long Island.
He probably just means the ones from Mars...
As part of an attempt to make people opposed to immigration look like armed robbers in stocking caps and sunglasses...yeah, I can believe it was in the Times. ;)
Sheila Jackson Lee will do for a start.
He just looks so familiar. :-)
not really..he means ...republican voters...he's another du walking insult
Where did find this photo? I have been looking all over for it.
Cool. Probably an oversight, but I'm glad they printed it. Anybody started a pool on how long it will be till the lawsuit is filed?
What was the caption in the NYTimes, "Another gun-toting, SUV-driving, Bible-beating, Limbaugh-listening, war-mongering, intolerant, racist, bigoted, Chicanophobe for Bush?"
They mean all the educated folk from Canada, Australia, Britain, and New Zealand who have a few bucks, speak English and have job offers.
Ummmm. No. I don't believe it.
Another of those hateful FReepers? <>
Thanks.
L.I. Clash on Immigrants Is Gaining Political Force
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: November 29, 2004
Everywhere Steve Levy went last year in his successful campaign for Suffolk County executive, he said, he heard the same complaints. 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. They told Mr. Levy they wanted action.
This month, Mr. Levy floated a proposal to deputize some Suffolk County police officers, giving them the power to detain people found to be in the United States illegally after being taken into custody on other charges. Right now, Suffolk police and corrections officers say, they are prohibited from asking immigrants whether they are in the country legally. Mr. Levy's proposal, which he later amended, was met by objections from the police unions.
Mr. Levy said his intent was to fight crime by focusing the effort on criminals like gang members, not ordinary immigrants. But advocacy groups and residents of Suffolk and Nassau Counties say the proposal is a sign of the times. They say the issue of illegal immigration is rapidly gathering political force in Long Island's patchwork of historically white suburban hamlets, and as the complaints grow, politicians are responding with get-tough rhetoric, crackdowns and new laws.
"Public opinion has changed," said Sue Grant, one of several Farmingville residents who rise each morning to stand on street corners and demonstrate against the day laborers in their community. "More and more people are coming forward and saying, 'I'm sick of this.' They don't want this anymore."
It is the latest knot in Long Island's wrenching struggle to digest the thousands of Hispanic immigrants - many of them day laborers - who have arrived in the past decade and at a record pace in the last three years, drawn by jobs in construction and landscaping and other blue-collar work. One result is a commensurate strain on public services like schools, garbage collection and sewer systems in an area where residents pay some of the highest taxes in the country.
Communities across the nation - from Mesa, Ariz., to Hoover, Ala., to Freehold, N.J. - have faced similar struggles. Day laborers have been shut out and demonstrated against, and have become the targets of political campaigns. There has been tension in many villages and cities and violence in isolated spots. But observers and local politicians said that rarely has the fight seemed so bitter or raged so long as on Long Island, where violence has erupted in recent years and Mr. Levy's proposal is just one of many with support from politicians and residents.
Long Island's stratified hamlets and villages, its history of segregation by race and by economic status, its need for cheap laborers to do work rejected by others and its lack of rental housing have set a unique stage for this fight, experts said.
"People came here in the 50's and 60's and early 70's thinking they were getting away from the problems of the city," said Stefan Krieger, who runs Hofstra University's Housing Rights Clinic. "In the city, with diversity, you celebrate it. Out here, not at all. You see different-color people on the street and for some reason, there's some dissonance."
That dissonance is growing louder, its tone more varied. While some communities like Glen Cove and Freeport have arranged for hiring halls for the day laborers who line street corners, others have roundly rejected the idea.
Farmingdale has stepped up traffic enforcement to discourage contractors from picking up day laborers, and several village officials say they are planning to demolish apartments that they say are chock full of immigrants. They argue that the buildings are rife with code violations and not worth preserving.
The Town of Brookhaven has set up an informal task force to investigate code violations and complaints about homes crowded with day laborers. A town councilwoman, Geraldine Esposito, said she was searching for ways to tighten the town's Neighborhood Preservation Act, further limiting the number of people in a home. "We're trying to solve a problem that's almost unsolvable for the town," she said. "Where are these men going to go? They should go back home to where their home is. There is no pot of gold here unless they can do it legally."
Campaigns for village and town offices have ramped up their rhetoric, promising to do everything possible to get day laborers off the streets.
I'm ok, I'm ok. I fell outta my chair when I saw it in the Times. The bleeding from my head is slowing down a bit now.
I thought he looked like Bono, of u2.
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