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At the April 9 meeting of the Suffolk County Legislature, all 18 legislators celebrated their respective nominees honoring Champions of...
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Matthew Chayes
- Feb 5
- 7 min
Long Island's foreign migrants taking low-wage jobs to survive — most off the books
Women migrants on Long Island are finding employment in cleaning, babysitting, washing hair at beauty parlors, doing nails at salons...
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Christine Sampson
- Dec 7, 2023
- 2 min
OLA: Wage Theft Is Rising
“Trust is a key factor” in the efforts to help victims of wage theft, said Erika Padilla, a legal advocate employed by OLA. “A steep rise...
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Juliana Holguin
- Dec 5, 2023
- 3 min
Latino advocacy group reports uptick in wage theft on Long Island's East End
Published December 5, 2023 at 11:11 AM EST OLA (Organización Latino Americana) of Eastern Long Island reported that the number of wage...
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27East
- Oct 30, 2023
- 2 min
OLA Announces New Initiative and New Hires
OLA of Eastern Long Island has announced the hiring of Lucía Damerau as director of Immigration Legal Services, Wanda Sánchez Day as...
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Alek Lewis
- Aug 16, 2023
- 8 min
‘The culture that we are in needs to be reversed:’ Immigrant advocates renew calls for Riverhead supervisor to rescind her emergency order
“You don’t want to be associated in the Christmas Story with the innkeeper who boxed out the Holy Family and forced them to have the...
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Olivia Winslow
- Aug 10, 2023
- 6 min
U.S. Citizenship Test
Proposed changes to assess English-language skills worry some who have passed By Olivia Winslow Andrés Espinosa's hopes and dreams were...
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Andres Espinosa
- Jul 25, 2023
- 5 min
OLA Hires Two Lawyers Who Will Help Bolster Mission of Organization
By Cailin Riley on July 19, 2023 For more than 20 years, OLA — the Latino-focused advocacy nonprofit that serves eastern Long Island —...
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Denise Civiletti
- Jun 22, 2023
- 4 min
East End Latino advocacy group hires civil rights and immigration attorneys to provide policy counsel and free immigration services
Wanda Sánchez Day, left, and Lucía Damerau, attorneys hired by OLA of Eastern Long Island. Courtesy photos: OLA OLA of Eastern Long...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
- Jun 2, 2023
- 3 min
Effort to block migrants draws protest, no vote at Suffolk legislature
By Vera Chinese and Michael Gormley Immigration advocates gathered outside the Suffolk County Legislature Tuesday speaking out against...
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Alek Lewis
- May 25, 2023
- 7 min
Riverhead supervisor extends and expands emergency order, drawing fire from Latino advocacy group and NYCLU
By Alek Lewis Riverhead Supervisor Yvette Aguiar. File photo: Alek Lewis Riverhead Supervisor Yvette Aguiar extended and expanded the...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
- Jul 29, 2022
- 8 min
OLA Celebrates 20 Years of Advocacy on the East End
OLA staff members are celebrating 20 years of working for a more equitable East End for Latino immigrants. Here they are pictured at the...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
- Oct 19, 2021
- 4 min
District Attorney Launches Office Of Immigrant Affairs
By Kitty Merrill Since its founding in 2002, Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island (OLA), has been working with local...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
OLA Left No One Behind
By Bella Lewis The volunteers and employees of Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island shone bright during the pandemic,...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
- Jul 12, 2020
- 3 min
Suffolk Uses 311 Phone Line To Provide Residents With A Food Lifeline
By Denise M. Bonilla A new Suffolk County program is helping bring food to those who cannot leave their homes. The Suffolk Cares program...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
- Jul 11, 2020
- 3 min
Suffolk Uses 311 Phone Line To Provide Residents With A Food Lifeline - Updated
By Denise M. Bonilla A new Suffolk County program is helping bring food to those who cannot leave their homes. The Suffolk Cares program...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
- Apr 29, 2020
- 3 min
Latino advocacy group donates laptops to East End school districts
By Jean-Paul Salamanca To help parents of East End schoolchildren trying to keep up with their studies at home amid the COVID-19...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
- Apr 15, 2020
- 5 min
County Making Outreach to Spanish-Speaking Residents
By Christine Sampson The Covid-19 pandemic has been disproportionately hard on minority populations. When they call the New York State...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
- Mar 30, 2020
- 1 min
OLA Provides Food To Families In Need
BY BRITTANY INESON Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island is looking to give back as the war against the COVID-19 pandemic...
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OLA of Eastern Long Island
- Mar 16, 2020
- 2 min
OLA: Census Bureau Fails To Deliver To Latinos
BY T. E. MCMORROW Ten years, apparently, was not quite enough time for the U.S. Census Bureau to coordinate its plan to count...
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