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Luis' new home is a patch of woods in Brookhaven. He uses local businesses for his bathroom and each day hopes to find something to sleep on.Until recently, the day laborer - who was afraid to give his full name - and a dozen others had been living together in the same overcrowded house in Farmingville, paying $200 to $250 a month to live three to a room.They said they were evicted on a half-hour's notice at 10:30 p.m. because their landlord didn't want to get arrested the way landlord Rosalina Dias had a week earlier after a raid on...

Waving signs and banging sticks on plastic buckets like drums, about 200 people, mainly undocumented Mexican immigrants, marched through Farmingville yesterday demanding the right not to be evicted without notice and thrown into the street.'snip'The immigrants and their supporters, including priest and activists, were protesting the eviction by authorities last week of at least 28 Mexican day laborers from an overcrowded Farmingville house, leaving them homeless.'snip'[Steve] Levy shot back yesterday, saying his campaign is supported by wide swaths of people fed up with overcrowded houses in Farmingville. "The 99 percent of the county that supports the closing of this hellhole...