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  • Housing issue gets heated over coverage of illegal immigrant crackdown.

    07/12/2005 12:27:24 PM PDT · by Happy2BMe · 20 replies · 1,008+ views
    Newsday ^ | July 12, 2005 | BART JONES
    An angry Suffolk Executive Steve Levy lashed out at the news media Monday, including Newsday, for its coverage of the Mexican day laborer evictions in Farmingville and said it is missing the real story -- the many residents who support the crackdown on illegally overcrowded houses. The residents praised the crackdown by Brookhaven Town and Suffolk County officials, saying houses packed with Mexican immigrants were turning parts of Farmingville into "slums."