So Far, Both Sides in Suffolk Tax and Immigration Impasse Are Ahead – New York
Tagged: day laborers, New York, Steve LevyPosted on: July 9th, 2007“When black and Hispanic members of the State Legislature blocked a routine renewal of a 1 percent sales tax for Suffolk County, they seemed to be hitting the county executive, Steve Levy, where he lives.
But the lawmakers’ gambit, intended as leverage to pressure Mr. Levy on the issue of creating halls for hiring immigrant day laborers, may have backfired: Many here agree with Mr. Levy’s aggressive stance against illegal immigration, and seem far more outraged by the far-off legislators’ withholding of $320 million from the county’s budget than by their much-loved local leader whose views provoked it. “
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