OPINION: Down to the wire in a Long Island race
Then there's the outside rhetoric. Some of Gershon's campaign lawn signs were stenciled over with the words "Gay Lover" and "
In July, a
It's the state of the race in this district just miles to the east of
That's basically the level of discourse we've gotten in a race where Gershon has been painted as a lefty out-of-towner, while Zeldin fights the perception that he has been a foot soldier for Trump.
But there's plenty more going on in this multifaceted district, which includes the pleasure palaces of the Hamptons plus stretches of working farms manned in some cases by immigrant labor.
That's the
The nun says that what she and her colleagues do is untangle knots, and that they try to make things a little easier for immigrants -- those who might be working in wineries or cutting hedges, making beds in seaside hotels. Helping them navigate doctors' appointments without the help of a car, perhaps, or just generally adjust to life in
That's always been tough, but she says things are getting even more difficult in the Trump era. Especially given that when Trump talks about
Yet the immigration rhetoric this election cycle has stretched only from build-the-wall to stop-the-caravan. When there's any consideration of the local impact of immigration, it's to discuss the MS-13 gang and its murderous ways. Sister
The nun recalled an immigration roundtable that Zeldin held at
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