Last week, area police asked our staff to watch a video called "RUN. HIDE. FIGHT. Surviving an Active Shooter Event."

A month ago I would have thought nothing of it, just another overly dramatic corporate safety video about something that...

After Obama's seismic announcement that qualifying undocumented young people will allowed to remain in the country and will be eligible for work permits, pundits across the country have spoken about the impact of the new policy.

Amid the commentary, it's easy to lose track of the people...

Just before midnight on November 8, 2008, a group of seven Long Island teens drove to the Village of Patchogue, looking for Latinos to assault.

Astonishingly, interviews would later show that "beaner hopping," as it was known in the group, was a relatively pedestrian pastime among area...

Governor Cuomo has been praised in the media for producing a disciplined and punctual state budget this year. He missed at least one clear opportunity, however: the chance to include funding for the New York DREAM Act, a bill that would allow undocumented students to access state financial aid for...

Last week, a New York State legislative task force released its statewide electoral district maps, the result of partisan wrangling in Albany notoriously aimed at keeping incumbents in power.

Good government groups have criticized the legislative maps for ignoring demographic data and community representation in favor of political interests, and...

Image courtesy of Tony Martínez

In 1982, Tony Martínez, then 13 years old, fled civil war in El Salvador with his parents and siblings and resettled on Long Island, part of the first wave of Salvadoran immigrants in the U.S....

At a hearing at the Nassau County Legislature last Monday, hundreds of Nassau residents vehemently voiced their opposition to the privatization of county bus service, saying that the county government was balancing the budget at the expense of bus riders.

At the hearing, Nassau County Executive...

Despite touting new translation tools and cursory Spanish-language trainings, Suffolk County police consistently deny basic services to residents with limited English proficiency, according to a coalition of community members and advocates that spoke at a press conference in Bay Shore on September 21.

The press conference featured several speakers who...

From the age of 5, when Enrique's mother left Honduras for a chance to earn a living in the United States, he has dreamed of a time when they will be reunited, for an opportunity to find out if she really loves him. Eleven years later, he undertakes the dangerous...

For many Long Islanders, the images of the past week have been difficult to bear, even 10 years removed from the horrendous attacks that devastated a city and a nation, attacks that greatly influenced -- some would say poisoned -- the global political climate in the decade that followed.

There have been fewer confirmed deaths of migrants crossing the border in Arizona this year compared with the same period a year ago, according to an August 16 article in the Arizona Republic:

"The Border Patrol's Tucson Sector has recorded 132 migrant deaths through July 31,...

For reasons presently unknown, 57-year-old Det. Sgt. Robert Reecks -- a...

In late May, I traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona to better understand why migrants undertake the life-threatening journey through the desert to begin a new life in this country. For some background on the ongoing yet little publicized humanitarian crisis in the desert,

It's Friday on Long Island. It's summertime.

Let the traffic begin.

On this particular Friday, however, there's a metaphorical roadblock out here, making the normal Hamptons gridlock even worse:

The New York state senators from Long Island have the power to make marriage equality a reality, but instead they're...

Gene Lefebvre, a co-founder of the migrant aid organization No More Deaths, speaks about...

On stage, a diverse group of performers depicted acts of anti-immigrant violence, including a dramatization tied to the November 2008 hate-crime killing of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero.

But there was just as much dramatic tension off-stage at Tuesday's performance of

On March 28, I flew to Guatemala City to meet with Emily Samantha Ruiz as she prepared to return home.

Despite being a US citizen, Emily was subjected to de facto deportation on March 11, and her parents -- who are undocumented immigrants -- have been working...

Empire State residents have witnessed some spectacular political flame-outs over the past few years, as if you needed me to tell you that.

Two New York governors shamed out of office, Congressman Charlie Rangel censured in front of his peers, a crop of state lawmakers entangled in everything from domestic...

Since taking office in 2004, Steve Levy, the highest-ranking official in Suffolk County, NY, has faced a broad range of criticism for ignoring a pattern of violent crime against Latino immigrants.

From local groups like the Long Island Immigrant Alliance to the editorial pages of the New York Times, critics...