John Derbyshire Reports Fear and Loathing on Long Island  June
09, 2004   A Reader In Peru Spots A Hollywood Heresy  From: John
Derbyshire [email him] readers will be interested, though not
surprised, to read of a June 8 debate in the legislature of
Suffolk County, Long Island.  There is a full report in Long
Island Newsday. [Immigration resolution defeated  By Sumathi
Reddy, June 9, 2004]  Our county legislature meets once a month
or so, largely to authorize line-item resolutions spending
federal, state and local revenues.  There are also, however, a
few "Sense Resolutions" on offer to the legislators, in which
they can express a collective opinion about something or other.
On June 8 one of the items before the legislature was Sense
Resolution S-042: "Memorializing resolution requesting Federal
government to enforce immigration laws."  This resolution was
hotly debated before being rejected for want of a single vote. 
Legislator Elie Mystal, who represents a district largely
populated by African-Americans (