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The Long Island Immigrant Alliance (LIIA) will hold a rally Wed., Nov. 9 at Noon to Make Suffolk County a Hate Free Zone. Here is the announcement from LIIA: On Wednesday, November 9th, LIIA, along with other Long Islanders, will hold a press conference and rally to demonstrate the vibrancy of the county’s immigrant...
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Two hundred Long Islanders gathered in Patchcogue yesterday to commemorate the 2008 hate killing of Ecuadoran immigrant Marcelo Lucero. Lucero’s death came in the wake of a campaign against immigrants by Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy. Seven young men from the area had engaged in at least a dozen attacks on immigrants over a...
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At an event to kick off a week of remembrance for hate crime victim Marcelo Lucero, County Executive candidate Steve Bellone dramatically announced that he would make the Suffolk County Hate Crimes Task Force a permanent and independent entity. The Hate Crimes Task force was established two months after Marcelo Lucero was killed by...
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Today’s New York Times has an editorial today called Justice and the Suffolk County Police that highlights the failure of that department to enforce laws against hate crimes when those crimes were directed against Latinos. Here are excerpts from that editorial: Suffolk County, N.Y., has seen some of the country’s most shameful political battles...
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Following the issuance of a letter by the United States Department of Justice critical of Suffolk County’s handling of hate crimes, the Long Island Immigrant Alliance held a press conference yesterday calling for police to comply with Federal civil rights laws. The Justice Department investigation began after the November 8, 2008 murder of Ecuadoran...
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Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness, premiering Sept. 21 at 10 PM on PBS Channel 13, is an engrossing but flawed look at the November 8, 2008 murder of Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue. The premise of the film according to its packaging is that this is a story “about a town...
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Marcelo Lucero, Steve Levy and the Democratic Party
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This is the first of a series we are offering looking at politicians who are inciting anti-immigrant prejudice. Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy took office while the county was going through a crisis of hate crimes against immigrants. Local neo-Nazis had kidnapped two Mexican day laborers in Farmingville and tried to murder them. A...
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