Suffolk: No emergency housing for homeless laborers
Quick ReadSuffolk County officials say they cannot provide long-term emergency housing to a dozen Latino day laborers living in the woods in Huntington Station.
Photo credit: James Carbone | A day laborer who gave only his first name, Luis, sits in a bivouac where he and others have been living in a wooded area near Lenox Road in Huntington Station. (Jan. 4, 2010)
Homeless day laborers return to Huntington Station woods
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Suffolk County officials say they cannot provide long-term emergency housing to a dozen Latino day laborers living in the woods in Huntington Station because they are undocumented immigrants and are not eligible under county and state policies.
But the men - who said they were rousted by authorities from their "homes" in the woods on Tuesday and again on Thursday - say they will remain there...
