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Freeport Kroner Inside: Spring Home: Prepping your home for the season Dinosaurs on the loose Page 23 Library hosts art exhibits Page 6 Nadya Nataly/Herald Walking the Mile for a good cause Best friends Heather Motely, 27, left, of Bohemia, and Nicole Cristi, 27, of Center Moriches, in Suffolk County, took part in the first annual Nautical Mile Irish Day last Saturday, at Brocco's, off Woodcleft Avenue. School officials address safety Freeport High students take part in national walkout By NADYA NATALY nnataly@liherald.com He pushed his glasses up against his nose as he sifted through a stack of papers last week. Freeport Schools Super- intendent Dr. Kishore Kun- cham said he had been working on safety plans for schools before the Parkland, Fla., shoot- ing a month ago. In the wake of the massacre, however, Free- port is like so many school dis- tricts that are taking stock of their emergency plans to ensure they are adequate. \Our schools are safe,\ Kun- cham said. Still, a tragedy like Parkland so often prompts deeper reflection. \Our hearts do go out to the 17 lost lives in the Parkland shooting,\ Kuncham said. \As far as Freeport is concerned, we always are proactive in rela- tion to the safety process and procedures. The safety of our students and staff is always a priority for us.\ On Wednesday, roughly 200 Freeport High School students reportedly took part in the National School Walkout for school safety, as the Herald was going to press. (See next week's paper for a full report.) Xuncham said that the dis- CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 IPS decision leaves families on edge By NADYA NATALY nnataly@liherald.com Part two in a series. Flooded by clients who are now likely to lose their Tempo- rary Protected Sta- tus, Freeport immigration attor- ney John Barrera is busy these days. Congress creat- ed the TPS pro- gram in 1990 under President George H.W. Bush. Ever since then, it has granted TPS hold- ers who have faced wars and natural disasters condi- tional resident sta- tus in the United States. It was intended as a humanitarian measure. Presi- dent Trump, how- ever, recently can- celed the program for Salvadorans and Haitians, and Hondurans might be next. Barrera is scrambling to help his many cli- ents who fear that they will be deported back to their home 0 na humanitarian level, taking away the PS is going to be a disaster because it's potentially destroying lives. JOHN BARRERA Immigration attorney countries, often after living for decades in the U.S. The cancella- tion of the program, many fear, could separate mothers and fathers from their children. \They've been Americanized,\ Barrera said of TPS holders. \And they've estab- lished their financ- es here in the Unit- ed States. On a humanitarian level, taking away the TPS is going to be a disaster because it's poten- tially destroying lives.\ Barrera has • more than 20 years of immigration law experience, and in the last year opened an office on Sunrise Highway in Freeport. He also has offices hi Kent, Wash., and Nampa, Idaho. Among his local clients are Miriam Cota Ruedas, 36, and her husband, Julio Ochoa, 38, of Babylon. They recently came to Barrera seeking help with filing U.S. permanent resident papers CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 AM <2ca..icn iy-iivo wau.
