Brown: Suffolk anti-immigrant frenzy accomplished little
Photo credit: David Pokress | Day laborers gather in Locust Valley. The Town of Oyster Bay passed an ordinance to fine day laborers and contractors for soliciting work on public roads. (Dec. 17, 2009)
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Arizona's tough new immigration law won't do what its governor wants.
It won't make illegal immigrants any less illegal.
Nor will it make them disappear.
That's the hard lesson of Suffolk County, where more than a decade of anti-illegal immigrant frenzy did little but fuel a spate of violence. In Suffolk, a failed proposal to deputize police officers as immigration agents a few...
