OLA in the News

By Michael Wright Outrage over a recent wave of detentions of local residents by officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

By Stephen J. Kotz A large crowd was beyond standing-room-only during a Immigration and Civil Rights Free Community Forum that was hosted...

By Beth Young East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, the son of immigrants who was raised in East Hampton, pledged Thursday night...

By Joanne Pilgrim Minerva Perez of Organizacion Latino Americana asked the East Hampton Town Board on Thursday to maintain separation...

By Michael Wright In a week when immigrant advocacy groups staged protests around the region against President Donald Trump’s efforts to...

By Christopher Walsh Police chief seeks to reassure anxious residents President Donald Trump’s pledge to deport undocumented immigrants...

By GLYN VINCENT ON SUNDAYS, at a baseball field in Amagansett in the late 1980s, Oswaldo Palomo bided his time on the bench waiting for a...

With grant to help, OLA aims to register new citizens Once an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Lucia Martinez of East Hampton will...

By Jon Winkler and Kelly Zegers This past July—as the issue of immigration has been at the forefront of America’s national discussion—a...

OLA of Eastern Long Island was contacted by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office to assist with a series of presentations and...

By Stephen J. Kotz A month after being named the executive director of the Organizacion Latino-Americana, or OLA, the East End Latino...

By Katie Blasl Though the East End’s Latino population has grown explosively over the past decade, you wouldn’t know it by looking at the...