While they have found work on the farms and in the factories, new immigrants have not found a welcome mat in Long Island. Groups of Americans routinely protest the presence of day laborers that loiter on their streets while waiting for work. Recently two Mexican men were abducted by two white men and stabbed and beaten with gardening tools in Suffolk County. The motive was hate, the police said. There is a housing shortage that the county is unable to solve.
Immigrants routinely live in tool sheds and auto garages.
But Mr. Morales is unfazed.