For the first time in his congressional career, U.S. Rep. Peter King hosted a teleconference-style town hall for his constituents on March 8. King, a Republican from Seaford, serves the 2nd …
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By Julie Mansmann
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3/15/17
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What was the Democratic Party’s position on immigration that was strongly advocated by former President Bill Clinton, and was widely cheered by his party, in his address to Congress on Jan. 24, 1995?
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3/3/17
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Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-St. Albans) will be holding town hall meetings the next two weeks. The focus will be on immigration, the Affordable Care Act, community concerns and the new administration.
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3/1/17
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The next meeting of the Irish Cultural Society brings one of the region's top historians to the stage of the Garden City Public Library. The meeting will be held at the Garden City Public Library, 60 Seventh Street, across the street from the Garden City Hotel, on Wednesday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting is free and open to the public.
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2/22/17
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We are all witnesses to the “new normal” in the Trump administration. In power all of three weeks, the president and his proxies have . . .
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2/9/17
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Local advocacy groups, religious leaders and residents rallied outside of U.S. Rep. Peter King’s Massapequa office on Feb. 3 to condemn the Seaford Republican’s support of President Trump’s immigration order, which has been halted by a temporary restraining order.
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By Julie Mansmann
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2/8/17
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President Donald Trump has flexed his executive muscles to expeditiously push through policies he promised on the campaign trail. He’s actually taking a page out of former President Obama’s book by . . .
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2/3/17
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“We are all immigrants,” Rabbi Arthur Vernon from the Congregation Shaaray Shalom in West Hempstead said. “If not directly, we are all descendants of immigrants.”
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By Stephany Reyes
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2/1/17
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In a matter of hours after President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting immigration on Jan. 27, several terminals at Kennedy Airport were transformed into makeshift independent law firms tasked with freeing detained legal immigrants who were denied entry into the U.S.
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By Nick Ciccone
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1/31/17
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In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump began by thanking President Obama for a smooth transition, and offered the people of America a message of hope by stating, “We, the citizens of America . . .
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1/27/17
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