U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out a series of raids on the east end this week. According to immigrant advocates, in Westhampton on Wednesday, Edgar Tezen, 35, an immigrant from Guatemala, was partially pinned under the tire of a car during his arrest by ICE agents and was later hospitalized. So claims Melinda Rubin, a Riverhead-based immigration attorney who is representing him.

Southampton Town police, however, said Tezen was not run over by an ICE car. Town police went to a 7-Eleven on Mill Road after an ambulance was requested because Tezen was having respiratory problems, said Southampton Police Chief James Kiernan. His officers, he said, were not involved in the ICE action or arrests.

Bart Jones reports in NEWSDAY that the arrest, which is garnering attention partly because of a video made by a bystander, came several days after ICE agents smashed two windows of a car in Flanders to arrest an immigrant who was inside, said Rubin, who is also representing that immigrant.

Chief Kiernan said he drove past the scene of Wednesday’s Westhampton arrest not long after it happened and saw Tezen on the ground several feet away from the ICE vehicle. He said it was "ridiculous" to state Tezen had been run over by the ICE car, and the ambulance was not called for that reason.

Minerva Perez, executive director of the nonprofit OLA of Eastern Long Island, said the ICE actions were creating chaos, tearing apart families in an area where immigrants make up a critical part of the workforce.

NYS Assemb. Tommy John Schiavoni (D-Sag Harbor) condemned the recent raids he said took place in Hampton Bays and Westhampton. "Thousands across the country are being snatched off the streets without due process," he said in a statement. "Not only is this an affront to the United States Constitution and the New York State Constitution, but the lack of transparency harms the relationship of trust between public officials, law enforcement, and the public, putting civilians and law enforcement in danger."

It's unclear how many people have been swept up in these recent East End raids and what they've been charged with, though Islip Forward, a civic group that tracks ICE arrests, said at least eight people were detained Wednesday in Westhampton and Hampton Bays.

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The Federal Aviation Administration has announced beginning today it would impose a 10% reduction in flights at 40 major airports in over two dozen states, including Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty and Teterboro in the metropolitan area. Long Island MacArthur Airport is not on the list, but flights there could be affected if they come from or go to the listed airports, including Boston Logan, Baltimore/Washington, Miami, Tampa and Orlando, Florida.

Peter Gill reports in NEWSDAY that like the government shutdown itself, it remains unclear how long the restrictions will be in place.

Rebecca Alesia, a luxury travel adviser with Wanderology, based in Nassau County, said flight travel is relatively slow now compared with the summer or winter holidays. "It will be interesting, to say the least, to see what will happen if this continues into Thanksgiving," she said.

Chicago-based United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said in a statement the company’s "long-haul international flying and our hub-to-hub flying will not be impacted ... Instead, we will focus our schedule reductions on regional flying and domestic mainline flights that do not travel between our hubs."

It’s possible, Alesia said, that other airlines will focus on maintaining their flights in and out of their major hubs, though much remains unclear.

"I think economics is going to be the driver" in deciding which flights are canceled, she said. "If you have a flight that's only 60% full ... that's probably going to be [canceled before] a flight that's at 100% capacity."

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