OLA Executive Director Minerva Perez fought back tears as East Hampton Village became the first municipality to pass a law aimed at boosting accountability in the event of federal immigration action. Jack Motz East Hampton Village has become the first municipality on the East End to enact a law, drafted by OLA of Eastern Long Island, that is meant to boost accountability in the event of federal immigration action. What the blueprint drafted by OLA aims to do, primarily, is establish a series...

Read a copy of the East Hampton Village draft law here. East Hampton Village officials have lent their support to legislation promoted by OLA of Eastern Long Island that seeks to foster accountability for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and that has swept the area over the past month, making the village the first municipality on the East End to move the law forward. This comes as OLA has continued its blitz of East End board meetings, including the East Hampton Town Board meeting...

Anita Boyer speaks at an East Hampton Village Board meeting on February 20. A proposed law drafted by Organización Latino Americana and former State Assemblyman Fred Thiele, which seeks to foster transparency and accountability during federal immigration enforcement actions in local towns and villages, is beginning to sweep across the East End. What the five-page resolution calls for, primarily, is the establishment of a series of procedures and training programs that would stymie the...