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In Port Jefferson, rallies over Arizona law

Quick ReadAbout 50 Long Island residents gathered outside Port Jefferson's Village Hall Saturday to protest Arizona's controversial immigration law.

Father Charles McCarron talks about the moral implications

Photo credit: Liz Malone | Father Charles McCarron talks about the moral implications of Arizona's controversial immigration law. (July 31, 2010)

About 50 mostly Long Island residents from a patchwork of social justice and immigrants' rights groups gathered outside Port Jefferson's Village Hall Saturday to protest Arizona's controversial immigration law.

Across the street, around a dozen demonstrators voiced support for the law, which requires law enforcement officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws.

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