The deportation of illegal workers is dividing Long Island, one of America’s wealthiest regions

Posted on: July 21st, 2008
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“Tiger Woods recently paid $65 million (£32m) for a beachfront home here. Christie Brinkley, whose recent divorce has been the talk of Long Island, is a regular visitor. But as a result of a locally enforced purge of the undocumented immigrants who provide much of the menial workforce, barmen are disappearing from beach bars, waiters from the lobster-and-champagne benefit parties and cleaners from the holiday mansions. Long Island is divided as never before between the haves and the have-nots.”*

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