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Hollywood star turns school day into a media lab By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com

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After answering questions from Glen Cove middle and high school students, the actor Luis Guzmán shook hands and signed autographs for them.

The Glen Cove Middle School auditorium was transformed into a live media production environment last week during a districtwide Cultural Arts Experience that brought award-winning actor Luis Guzmán to the campus through a collaboration among FAME GC, the Finley Middle School PTA and district leadership. The immersive event blended professional media training with large-scale student assemblies, giving participants direct access to both industry-style production work and personal storytelling from a veteran performer. Guzmán, known for his roles in the television series “Wednesday” and “Narcos” and the film “Boogie Nights,” among many others, began the day on Jan. 29 with students from the journalism, TV production, podcasting and photography programs in an Interdisciplinary Cultural Arts Lab modeled after a Hollywood press junket. The students conducted interviews, operated CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

Suozzi backtracks on ICE funding after backlash By ROKSANA AMID & WILL SHEELINE of the Glen Cove Herald

More than 50 current and former constituents gathered outside the Glen Cove office of Rep. Tom Suozzi on Monday, demanding the immediate cessation of funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement after Suozzi, along with six other Democrats, crossed party lines to support a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that included major financial backing for the agency. “I was angry, because we had called his office many, many times asking him to vote no,”

said Marsha Wiseltiar, of Glen Head, who joined the protest with other residents. “We don’t want to see our citizens hurt and killed and taken and handled by a bunch of thugs, and this is how you send that message.” Maureen Tracy, a retired teacher who lives in Glen Cove, said Suozzi’s vote felt like a betrayal after she had supported his campaigns for years. “My grandparents were immigrants from Ireland, and they were not treated the way immigrants are being treated here today,” Tracy said. “When I heard about Tom Suozzi’s vote, I was furious. We did door-

to-door for him. We supported him 100 percent. There are plenty of fabulous people in our communities who are not criminals like they’re trying to say.” Outside Suozzi’s office, demonstrators held signs and chanted, drawing a mix of encouragement and criticism from passing drivers. One shouted, “Get a job!” prompting a protester to respond, “Get a conscience!” Other drivers honked in support and asked how they could help. The rally was sparked by Suozzi’s Jan. 22 vote in favor of a $64 billion Department of Homeland Security appropria-

tions bill. Suozzi and fellow Long Island Democrat Laura Gillen were two of just seven House Democrats who supported the measure, which will fund DHS and agencies under its umbrella, including ICE. Days later, Suozzi publicly distanced himself from the vote, following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a federal

immigration agent in Minneapolis. Pretti’s was the second deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen by a federal agent in the city in last month, after the killing of Renee Good. “I failed to view the DHS funding vote as a referendum on the illegal and immoral conduct of ICE in Minneapolis,” CONTINUED ON PAGE 6