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I am so very glad to have Mark Torres with me today.

He is a labor and employment attorney who represents thousands of union workers and their families in greater New York.

He is also an adjunct professor of labor studies at Hofstra University.

He is an author as well.

Besides writing two crime novels, he has also written a book called Long Island Migrant Labor Camps, Dust for Blood, and a book that is the focus of

our discussion today called Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics, Station of Intolerance.

Thank you so much for being a guest on this show. So nice to have you on.

Oh, it's an honor to be here. Thanks for having me.

So your special interest is the history of Long Island, New York, correct? Yeah, it seems to have

formed. Not that I particularly sort it out, it just, you know, as a historian, I typically

follow where the story takes me. And more and more increasingly, there's a lot

of untold history on Long Island, which is quite fascinating and kind of a forgotten part. Most people

just think of New York as New York City, perhaps Albany upstate area, but certainly Long Island

has a rich, deep history that's worth exploring. And it was through that research that this subject became of interest to you.

Certainly. As you said in my background, I obviously have a lot of history in labor studies.

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