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Residents offer items, money for homeless laborers
Photo credit: James Carbone | A day laborer who gave only his first name, Luis, shows the interior of his sleeping space in a shantytown near Lenox Road in Huntington Station. (Jan. 4, 2010)
Homeless day laborers return to Huntington Station woods
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People are offering coats, sleeping bags, tents, money, even airplane tickets to go back home to the Latino day laborers living in the woods in Huntington Station.
"I think people are demonstrating a sense of outrage and a need to do something," said the Rev. Allan Ramirez, a Latino advocate who is helping the men.
He said he has received calls from nearly three dozen people offering...
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