Crackdown on Long Island Landlords Is Criticized as Harassment of Immigrants – (since when do building inspectors show up at 6am?)
Tagged: children, Guatemala, Guatemalan, Long Island, New York
The officers showed up at 6 a.m. at the four connected apartments on Old Country Road.
They went from bedroom to bedroom, waking children and photographing the premises and the residents, who all were Latino immigrants, of varying legal status.
“They asked everyone for their papers and we did not know why,” said Marco Yat, 40, a Guatemalan who lives in one of the apartments with his wife and three young children. “The children were scared.””*
*From: www.nytimes.com
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