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Long Island Anti-Immigrant Leader Lashes Out at Lucero’s Mom

Posted April 22, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.
Categories: Hate Watch

Margaret Bianculli-Dyber, one of Long Island’s best known anti-immigrant activists, lashed out at the mother of Marcelo Lucero in an interview with the Long Island Press after the guilty verdict in the Jeffrey Conroy murder trial. According to the Long Island Press:

“I’m sorry [Lucero’s] mother is crying, but that is the consequence of her actions of not telling her son to stay home where he belonged,” says Bianculli-Dyber…

Bianculli-Dyber, who from 1999 to 2003 frequently advised the anti-immigrant faction within the Suffolk Legislature as head of the Sachem Quality of Life organization, also objected to Conroy’s conviction on a hate crime charge:

“When you’re dead you’re dead, whether the person killed you screaming out racial epithets or whether they shouted, ‘I love you,’” says Margaretann Bianculli-Dyber, a New York City schoolteacher with the Farmingville Civic Association, a group that has been at the center of the immigration debate in Suffolk for a decade.

The Farmingville Civic Association has been used as a forum for county politicians to announce anti-immigrant initiatives since 2004.

Bianculli helped set the tone for Suffolk’s policies towards immigrants and her words have shaped America’s image of Suffolk County.

Marcelo Lucero was killed by Jeffrey Conroy on Nov. 8, 2008.

Tags : farmingville, farmingville civic association, hate crimes, hate watch, jeffrey conroy, marcelo lucero, sachem quality of life, steve levy, suffolk, suffolk legislature

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