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[Marxism] Crackdown on L.I. Landlords criticized as Immigrant harassment
Full: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/nyregion/15housing.html?
ref=nyregion
The New York Times
January 15, 2008
Crackdown on L.I. Landlords Is Criticized as Harassment of Immigrants
By COREY KILGANNON
WESTHAMPTON, N.Y. — 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.”
Thirteen Guatemalan passports were confiscated. But while the Oct. 30
raid may have seemed like an immigration raid to the residents, it
turned out to be a building inspection, conducted by code enforcement
officers and police officers from the Town of Southampton, which
includes
Westhampton.
And within hours, the occupants of three of the units — more than a
dozen people — had packed up and moved out, because they suspected
that the inspectors were more interested in their immigration
status than
in broken smoke detectors and certificates of occupancy, said Mr. Yat,
a construction worker who remained, he said, because he and his family
are United States citizens....
Several notices of violations were issued to the landlord. The
citations and other details of the inspection were posted on the
town’s Web
site, along with those of other inspections carried out “to identify
and crack down on unsafe and overcrowded living conditions within
Southampton Town.”
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