Suffolk police: Department probing video of interview with immigrant family
Leave your thoughtsThe encounter was included in a ProPublica/Newsday story about how the department investigated a missing person case in Brentwood involving…
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Claim alleges unsafe conditions for Nassau golf course, parks workers
Leave your thoughtsEmployees at Nassau County golf courses and parks filed a complaint Wednesday with the New York State Department of Labor…
Local advocates focus on push to register minority, immigrant voters
Leave your thoughtsJust hours after taking the Oath of Allegiance to become a U.S. citizen at the Alfonse D’Amato U.S. Courthouse in Central…
Islip residents say town’s voting system hurts minorities
Leave your thoughtsFrustration over decades of underrepresentation of minorities in Islip Town government — and the divide that some residents say is geographic, economic…
About half of children under 5 separated at border back with families, U.S. officials say
Leave your thoughtsThough federal authorities say they are acting as efficiently as possible to carry out the reunifications, some immigrant rights advocates…
Lawsuit: Islip Town’s voting system blocks Latinos
Leave your thoughtsA group of Latino residents and advocacy groups is suing Islip Town, claiming the system of electing the town board…
Long Islanders protest Trump immigration policy
Leave your thoughtsLong Island religious leaders and pediatricians gathered in Huntington on Thursday to protest the practice of children being separated from…
Immigrant and civil rights advocates protest Trump visit
Leave your thoughtsLong Island immigrant advocates rallied a day ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Bethpage to say they do…
Hearing on raising minimum wage for tipped workers draws 500
Leave your thoughtsAbout 500 people attended a contentious, day-long hearing in Farmingdale on Friday about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to raise…
Make the Road storming in
Leave your thoughtsRep. Peter King of Long Island and Dan Donovan of Staten Island and Brooklyn are in the sights of immigration…