The bill, which failed to pass earlier this month, will not be reintroduced, its sponsor, Joseph Caracappa, a Republican County legislator from Selden, said through a spokeswoman. Bill Fairchild of Crimestoppers of Suffolk County said his unit had received about 20 tips about the attack. A podiatrist from Farmingville, Bernadette Garcia, said she would volunteer if there was a hiring center where immigrants could congregate and where employers could register for them. The people who pick them up treat them like day slaves. It's just not right.
Somebody has to oversee it.
Outside the closed Bald Hill Market, Luisa Machado, an assistant manager at a liquor store, said workers should gather there to be hired. She worries that there may have been earlier, more lethal attacks that no one heard about. Nearby, Chris Volpe, a retired law enforcement officer in Farmingville, said he wanted to move away from his town, where he is disturbed by seeing 35 men living in one house and where he does not like seeing 20 foreign-born people playing basketball at the nearby playground on weekends. I never see anybody harass the people. Nobody hates these people, because they're good people, God-fearing people.