THE HOFSTRA
HEMPSTEAD, NY VOLUME 93 ISSUE 11
CHRONICLE
TUESDAY March 3, 2026
KEEPING THE HOFSTRA COMMUNITY INFORMED SINCE 1935
OPINION
‘Vote blue no matter who’ doesn’t work “If you claim your party to be a left-leaning one, put actual leftleaning candidates out there.” By Anthony Favilla
most viable political option to beat him. However, this attitude is very unhelpful for the party and proIf you have been followgressives as a whole, especially ing politics over the past few long-term. Voting for someone years, you may have heard the simply because they are a less phrase “Vote blue no matharmful option than their oppoter who.” It is often used to encourage Democratic voters to nent enables corrupt Democrats vote for Democratic candidates to stay in office and allows no matter if they align with the tangible change to stagnate. voter’s view or not, so long as We can see this on a local they block Republicans from level in New York’s 3rd Contaking power. gressional District. Representing that district is Democrat The reasoning behind this Tom Suozzi. He is a moderate is understandable, especially who has been involved in New when it comes to the national York politics since becoming elections. Progressives and the mayor of Glen Cove in Democrats alike do not want 1993. President Donald Trump in power, and Democrats are the OPINION EDITOR
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NEWS
Local business leaders push back against ICE
By Katelyn Buchalter ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
At a community listening session for Hofstra University’s Frameworks of Community class on Feb. 11, Hofstra students and faculty listened to ongoing concerns and conversations from community members of Hempstead and Uniondale. The discussion included discourse on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Community member and local business owner Nelson Hernandez attended the meeting. He spoke of signs he had made to provide to local businesses, which read “ICE/CBP Agents do not have consent to enter this business unless they have a valid judicial warrant.” Additionally, the poster noted, “Staff are not authorized to consent access to this business.” “We have a big role as a business community to get involved with what’s going on because, especially [within] Hempstead communities right now, I talked
Kumba Jagne / The Hofstra Chronicle
Nelson Hernandez visited businesses on several streets to speak with owners and provide them with his Anti-ICE signs.
to at least 50 businesses in Hempstead and they’re going through so much pain,” Hernandez said. Businesses throughout the area have seen significant losses, especially as of late. Hernandez approached businesses in several streets, offering them signs and speaking with them about the losses they have faced. “I took a few streets, and I went [into] every single one of
[the businesses]. There were some delis, restaurants, multiservices, clothing stores [and] phone stores … Especially one of them that mentioned to me that they had two stores, one on Main Street and the other one right by Home Depot. They said that both of those stores, they used to be very busy, and after this situation with ICE, their business dropped like 60%,” Hernandez said.
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FEATURES
This Hofstra Life: Django Buenz
By Kumba Jagne MULTIMEDIA EDITOR
Kumba Jagne / Hofstra Chronicle
Django Buenz is a progressive political influencer and political science student at Hofstra University.
Progressive influencer and junior political science major Django Buenz describes her content as an echo chamber of her own timeline. She posts explanations, vlogs and screenshots of communist and leftist memes, among other things. “It’s kind of like yelling into the void,” Buenz said. “[It’s]
most of what I do and what I’m kind of infamous for doing, which is yelling.” According to an article from NPR, published on Sept. 10, 2023, the Chilean military, with help from the United States, launched a coup to overthrow socialist president Salvador Allende on Sept. 11, 1973. Former President Richard Nixon and his assistant for national security affairs, Henry Kissinger, wor-
ried what it would mean for the U.S. if there was a freely elected socialist in the Chilean office. In the years leading up to 1973, the U.S. spent millions of dollars for anti-communist propaganda and covert actions. General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte became Chile’s leader and killed 38,000 of his citizens and 3,000 people disappeared in his 17-year dictatorship.
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