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they did this are common in the legends of many of our families, probably even in those who are currently protesting against the current wave of immigration we are experiencing. I certainly do agree that the current wave of immigration is a problem. It is massive in scale. But people have always wanted to come to America. And if this government has dropped the ball in allowing more than the country can absorb, why is it the fault of those who got here? And I wonder — is it more than the country can absorb? Both Democratic and Republican administrations have deliberately followed this policy at our borders. My thinking is, if that’s the way things are, accept it. Offer a smile and a wave and get on with it. If others want to demonstrate against this policy at the 7-Eleven, they can do that too. But don’t harass these immigrants. You just make a fool out of yourself. And it will come back to bite you if our current administration finds a path to citizenship for them. Then — hard as it may seem — they will be Americans too. Remember your own family’s stories. Meanwhile, our current economic downturn is getting worse and worse. First, the bad numbers were said to be as bad as the recession of 1982. Next, they said they were as bad as just after World War II. Now you hear the comparison to the Great Depression. We will get over this, but last week, I read the astonishing statement by our current Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot that, after giving the matter considerable thought, she didn’t think it was the Town’s job to
take responsibility for feeding the hungry here. She thinks that is the job of charities and churches, and maybe the Town could “help out.” She surely has her eye on the Town budget. She’s new to the job and has just discovered there is a yawning deficit left to her by a prior administration that apparently felt that what happened after it left would no longer be its problem. Nevertheless, there is plenty of history both in Southampton Town and elsewhere that, in extraordinary times, the towns and villages did exactly what Kabot says she will not do, which was to take the lead in feeding the hungry. Richard Hendrickson, the man who measures the weather for the Weather Service every day here in Bridgehampton, remembers that during the Depression, his wife was the director of the Town department that saw to it that hungry people could find a place to go to eat. Richard is 90 years old. He’s worked for the National Weather Department since he was 18. Seventy-two years in the same job, he’s still doing it well. These are extraordinary times. Kids are beginning to show up at our grammar schools without lunches because their parents have no money for food. The other day a grocer told me that people have come in quietly asking for food and he has given it to them. There’re people now living in the woods in Hampton Bays. We will get through these extraordinary times. But it is not helpful when the chief executive of our largest town says that it is not her problem when in past times such as these, it was considered otherwise.
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schools or private schools in the city. Closing the high school will also shutter a small school filled with the enthusiasm and pride and excitement of a close-knit student body, which, in the last few years, has begun to attract “up-scale” kids whose parents had never thought to send them there before. (For comments from these kids, along with photos, go to the recently posted Web site welovebhs.com.) It also has begun to attract kids from every strata who do not do well at big high schools, but who thrive in a small one. I personally know two minority families who last year switched their kids from Southampton to Bridgehampton paying tuition to do so — with the result of their kids going from barely passing to High Honors. Well, if they do close Bridgehampton High School, it will at least give those school kids the honor of living the movie Last Season, though in real life and without the state’s mandate. The Bridgehampton High School basketball team has beat the socks off everybody in its division in the state eight times in the last 30 years. These Bridgehampton Killer Bee state championships are proudly acknowledged on a small sign you see at the western entrance to the Hamlet of that town, which was put up in the late 1990s. Vote for DeGroot, Tyree, Walker and White on May 19. Do NOT vote for the team of Conti, Ludlow and Gordon. I know them to be nice people but as far as the school goes, they have a wrongheaded idea in my opinion.
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