Trouble on Long Island, New York SUFFOLK COUNTY OVERRUN BY ILLEGAL ALIENS VCT/American Patrol in New York - October 14-15, 2000

View photos from Farmingville, NY National Review on the Suffolk Mess - Oct. 17 Who Are You Calling "Illegal"? ....So here we are on page A8 of last Sunday's Newsday. Headline: EVENT SLAMS "ILLEGAL ALIENS." Note those quotation marks. If you read no further than the headline, you would presume that some event had been held - a public meeting, you could hardly help but infer, since there is an accompanying picture of a speaker on a podium - at which some group of people had been wrongly identified as illegal aliens; had been, in headline jargon, slammed as "illegal aliens." Who was this group, so unfairly characterized as "illegal aliens"? Well, it was ... illegal aliens. The event, held at a local VFW post, was organized by a local citizens group fed up with the presence of hundreds of Mexican day laborers in the town of Farmingville. Guest speaker was Glenn Spencer of the California-based "Voices of Citizens Together," a noisy but entirely respectable group that lobbies against illegal immigration. New York Times- Oct. 14 Day-Laborer [Illegal Immigration] Issues Prompt Opposing Rallies Glenn Spencer, president of Voice of Citizens Together, a California group that pushes for immigration reform, is scheduled to speak at a meeting today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at V.F.W. Post 4927 in Centereach. A woman tending the bar there yesterday said the post did not condone the speaker's views. "We didn't know what it was going to be, and we're kind of stuck with it because we have a contract," said the bartender, who would not give her name. New York Times - Oct. 15 Suffolk Residents Protest Illegal Immigrants [Aliens] and Day Laborers Waving American flags and red, white and blue balloons, 200 Suffolk County residents opposed to illegal immigrants and day laborers in their communities held a boisterous town hall meeting in Centereach, N.Y., yesterday and called for tougher enforcement of immigration laws. "We can either roll over and play dead, or take our flag and walk with it," said Margaret Bianculli, the president of the Sachem Quality of Life Organization, which sponsored the gathering. "This is not a drill to us. This is the real thing." The featured speaker was Glenn Spencer the president of VCT, a California group that advocates immigration law changes, and the host of a weekly radio show called "American Patrol Report." Hauppauge, N.Y. - Oct. 16 Arrogant criminals flout U.S. Law in New York, American activist arrested Suffolk County police arrested the outspoken leader of a group critical of the mainly undocumented day laborers [illegals] who gather on Horse Block Road in Farmingville. But the trespassing charges against Margaret Bianculli-Dyber, head of the Sachem Quality of Life Organization, did not disrupt the rally, where speakers included everyone from politicians, civil- rights activists and priests to immigrants from Kosovo and Latin America and a survivor of the Holocaust. Breaking into bilingual chants of Gananemos la lucha! -- Spanish for "We will win the struggle!" -- and "The people united will never be defeated," the crowd cheered as a dozen speakers vowed that Long Islanders will not tolerate bigotry.

Farmingville: a town under siege

Meeting Information

--Announcement from Sachem Quality of Life Organization--
(Includes other actions on October 15th involving illegal aliens and local politicians, etc.)

The American Patrol Report will be broadcast live from Suffolk County, L.I. on Sunday, October 15.
See Newsday Article - October 13 - "Farmingville tensions lead to weekend events"
See New York Times Article - October 14 - "Day-Laborer Issues Prompt Opposing Rallies"
See New York Times Article - October 15 - "Suffolk Residents Protest Illegal Immigrants [Aliens] and Day Laborers'
Newsday Slams Spencer, Spencer Fights Back - October 18
Ridiculous propaganda from the Suffolk Co. Spanish-language newspaper, 'Hoy' (Translated)
VP candidate at rally to praise foes of illegal [alien] day laborers - October 22 | PHOTOS
Spencer Letter re: Reform VP candidate at rally to praise foes of illegal day laborers - October 22
New York Times: Border Warriors - October 22
Bob Wiemer: Blurring the lines between law, anarchy - October 23

A SUCCESSFUL MEETING
Get a complete report about the deteriorating conditions in the Farmingville area on the American Patrol Report radio news magazine on Sunday, October 15.