Newsday - page 22
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Brandishing signs with slogans reading "Deport Illegal Aliens" and "No Border, No Order, No Nation," about 30 demonstrators yesterday took to a Farmingville corner known as a hiring depot for day laborers to demand enforcement of immigration laws.
The group was led by the controversial Arizona-based Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which held an event later in the day in Babylon seeking volunteers to patrol U.S. borders.......
HISPANIC PRESS REACTS TO BABYLON MINUTEMEN MEETING
Little support for Minuteman in Long Island
Long Island -- Numerous neighbors of Babylon, mainly young and adolescent Anglo-Saxons, arrived yesterday at the American Legion of that town, but in opposition to which he was expected, instead of supporting to the Minuteman, they protested by its presence.
"We took advantage of the immigrants and we operated", said them to the newspaper Catherine Flomenbaun TODAY, "for that reason we supported them and we want that they benefit from this country, like we do", emphasized Flomenbaun, that resides with her family in Babylon and works like professor in university SUNY of Westbury.
During the meeting of the Minuteman in the American Legion, 94 leaders of the group affirmed that the intention to arrive at New York is to reunite voluntary to take care of the border limits of the United States with Canada, assuring that this border is becoming the passage of Arab terrorists and narcotics trafficker.
"the immigrants are not our enemies", said a man whom he preferred to remain anonymous, "but the dealers, the hidden criminals and potential terrorists between the immigrants yes are our true enemies", affirmed, while he assured that between September of the 2004 and the 23 of June of this year have been captured 391 suspects of murders, 136 sexual kidnappers, 525 abusadores and 15,154 people accused of assaults and other crimes, between these contraband and sale of narcotics.
Leaders of the Minuteman in Babylon denied the access to the press Spanish, allowing the enter the average Anglo-Saxons. "the press in Spanish only writes stories that favor the immigrants to them", affirmed an Anglo-Saxon man that it did not identify itself, while he was united with other Minuteman to prevent the passage to Latin journalists. "This is a private property and the one that puts a foot in the vestibule we stopped him", he said.