11.21.2014 Business Mixed views from biz owners on Obama’s immigration order Business owners in local sectors long dependent on immigrant labor offered mixed views Friday on President Barack Obama’s executive action that will allow temporary worker status to millions of immigrants...
07.27.2014 Columns Guest Column: Immigration coverage overlooked key facts I was sorry, but not surprised, to see The Suffolk Times parroting the leftist party line regarding its coverage of the “border children” arriving in Riverhead. According to the...
07.19.2014 Columns Column: Remove hate speech from immigration debate It was a sunny August afternoon last year when we at the paper got word of police activity — a possible drug bust — in Mattituck. It turned out...
07.17.2014 Government ‘Border children’ reach Riverhead, reunite with family A misty Independence Day morning rekindled hope for a Riverhead family that was reunited for the first time in 11 years. “I’m so happy,” said Marta, a Guatemalan immigrant...
09.27.2013 News Special Report: A dwindling workforce for local farmers Constantine Curup’s life as a farm worker would hardly be considered enviable. The Guatemalan immigrant left his family in 2002 to work in the fields of Long Island. “It’s...
09.27.2013 News Farm was no stepping stone for this immigrant While many immigrants to the U.S. look at agricultural work as a stepping stone into other industries, 28-year-old Seferino Cotzojay of Mattituck has achieved big things by staying put...
06.18.2013 Business 7-Eleven stores reopen and customers return It was business as usual at the Cutchogue 7-Eleven Tuesday morning, where a steady stream of customers entered the store looking for their coffee fix. There was, however, one...
06.17.2013 Police Immigration sweep leads to arrest of 7-Eleven owner Nine people have been arrested as part of a nationwide immigration and identity theft investigation as federal agents seized 7-Eleven stores across Long Island including the stores in Cutchogue...
09.14.2012 News ‘Great help’ or presidential overstep? Obama’s immigration order here Leti was one of hundreds of incoming freshmen to walk into Riverhead High School on the first day of school last Wednesday. The 15-year-old dreams of going to college...