To Frank P. Petrone, Town of Huntington Supervisor, and Town Board members:

During your public meeting with the Huntington Union Free School District Board of Education at Huntington High School April 19,  I spoke about closing the day-laborer hiring site on Depot Road in Huntington Station because:

    1) It is illegal to aid/assist someone who you have reason to believe is in the United States of America illegally.  By definition of the site the Town of Huntington is giving aid to known "illegal aliens." See Section 8 of the U.S. code.

    2) New York State law tells you to report illegal aliens to the federal government. See section 135, code of the state of New York.

    3) The federal governments states that state/local officials can detain and report to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Naturalization Services department that they have or know of "illegal aliens."

    4) Not only is the Town of Huntington not enforcing either state or federal laws as they refer to illegal aliens, instead you are helping them break the law by providing a place where they can get employment, knowing they do not have the proper documentation to work in the United States of America and New York state.

Please refer to Section 274, Felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A), which reads:

A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:

•  assists an illegal alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or,
• encourages that illegal alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or,
• knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.

 Because of these reasons, and many more detailed in the laws of our country and state,  I am saying you must close the site. I will starting a petition and get thousands of signatures for closure and for a possible lawsuit against the town for harboring known illegal aliens and to give them the ability to get work without SS-4, passports, work visas or proper documentation per us immigration laws.

 I expect that the town will close the site. And once it does so, it will enforce anti-loitering laws, zoning codes and laws, public intoxication laws, prostitution laws and public indecency laws.

Thank you.

A very concerned citizen,

Nicholas Wieland
American and 53-year Huntington resident