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Let’s stop shooting from the fringes and aim for the middle

Washington saw another remarkable session of apparent bipartisan accommodation last week, as senators from both parties met with President Trump to discuss measures aimed at containing mounting gun violence. more

3/9/18

Mariann Mendoza, a volunteer receptionist and paralegal at the Central American Refugee Center in Hempstead, with a stack of TPS-related case files looming behind her.

TPS holders cast into the shadows?

Part one of an ongoing series. Read parts [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] here. Curtailing Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, has become a flashpoint in national politics since … more

By Nadya Nataly and Zach Gottehrer-Cohen | 3/9/18

Daine Taylor/Herald Mariann Mendoza, a volunteer receptionist and paralegal at the Central American Refugee Center in Hempstead, with a stack of TPS-related case files looming behind her.

TPS holders cast into the shadows?

Part one of an ongoing series. Curtailing Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, has become a flashpoint in national politics since President Trump announced in December and January that the program … more

By Nadya Nataly and By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen | 3/7/18

Common sense or more nonsense?

Well, that didn’t go so well. Just when it appeared that a bipartisan group of senators calling themselves the Common Sense Coalition would finally find a way to break the endless impasse over immigration . . . more

2/23/18

Meeks blasts the president

“The camera of history is rolling.” That was the verdict of U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, the 5th District’s Democratic congressman, at a wide-ranging town hall meeting in Franklin … more

By Timothy Denton | 2/21/18

There has to be a better way to treat immigrants

If you hang around Congress these days or happen to visit the White House, there are three words that you dare not utter. One is “obstruction,” another is “collusion” and, for some unexplained and sad reason, the latest dirty word in the Republican-controlled House and Senate is “immigrant.” more

2/8/18

Build the wall, and leave a door

Thank goodness for the recent Congressional action averting an extended federal government shutdown. It looks like enough moderate Republican and Democratic lawmakers may have finally reached a critical mass . . . more

2/2/18

Hoping for the best in what looks like a big year

As the new year begins, it’s a good time to take stock of the tumultuous year in Washington that’s just ended, and to express the hope of a more congenial 2018. more

1/4/18

Reaching for a consensus on tax reform, and more

President Trump may have made waves again with his decision to work with Democrats on a bipartisan agreement to raise the federal debt limit and provide hurricane relief for Texas, but in so doing, he may have . . . more

9/22/17

During Operation SOAR, 32 Long Islanders were arrested in July.

Franklin Square man arrested, detained

An unnamed Franklin Square man was one of 32 total people arrested across Long Island in July for allegedly committing sex crimes. more

By Vanessa Parker | 8/17/17

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