The Journal News
New York -- Recent trespassing incidents in Brewster have opened a new torrent of complaints about illegal immigration in the suburbs — this time from parents of elementary schoolchildren.
"There isn't a parent I've spoken to who isn't absolutely outraged at what's going on — and scared," said Kara Garecht, who has a daughter at Garden Street School in Brewster and lives in Southeast.
A drunken man was found unconscious behind the hilltop school during the day Oct. 31, prompting the assignment of a sheriff's deputy to begin standing guard there. Although police haven't specified the man's immigration status, the incident has been a focal point for anger about illegal immigrants. Garden Street School, with children in kindergarten through third grade, is next to woods where immigrant day laborers have been found living outdoors.
Posted by Richard at December 11, 2005