NEW: From Her Immigration Record to Her Support for Hochul, Gillen Has Betrayed LI Families
Long Islanders are fed up with Lyin’ Laura Gillen.
Instead of working to secure the border and make Long Island safer, Gillen voted AGAINST billions in border security funding, allowing dangerous illegal immigrants to continue to roam free.
And if her voting record wasn’t bad enough, Gillen has also aligned herself with Kathy Hochul, who refuses to uphold immigration law, and the Working Families Party, the political machine behind Zohran Mamdani.
“Radical Laura Gillen is putting Long Islanders in danger. Criminal illegal immigrants are wreaking havoc on New York, and instead of doing what she promised to secure the border and keep her constituents safe, Gillen is siding with extremists like Kathy Hochul who put dangerous illegal immigrants ahead of Long Island families.” – NRCC Spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole
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Laura Gillen’s Borderline Betrayal of Long Islanders
Messenger Papers
Anthony Cacciato
July 22, 2026
ROCKVILLE CENTRE – Immigration has been a core legislative priority of the Trump Administration over the last two years, with the GOP’s common sense immigration policy propelling President Trump (R-FL) to the White House in 2024.
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When she ran for Congress two years ago, Gillen ran on working across the aisle to secure the border. In Congress, she’s done just the opposite. Gillen has voted against a number of bills which would help strengthen and provide tools to our immigration law enforcement, including $10 billion for personnel expansion and $46.5 billion to restart construction of the border wall. Just last month, Gillen joined Democrats in taking a party-line vote against fully funding CBP and ICE, boosting law enforcement, and locking in border security through 2029.
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What is most alarming is how Laura Gillen continues to hold the line against securing the border and protecting Long Islanders despite the persistent issue of illegal immigration in New York State, especially on Long Island. Just last month, an illegal immigrant stabbed his neighbor to death 50 times before driving to the Wendy’s where he worked and murdering a coworker in Lynbrook, inside Gillen’s district. Days after the gruesome double murder, another criminal illegal immigrant brutally beat up a man behind a dumpster and then raped him in Amityville, right on the border of Gillen’s district. While Republicans have been at work fighting to prevent violent criminals from harming Long Islanders, Gillen has time and time again voted against the measures that would combat violent criminals like those terrorizing her own constituents.
If her voting record doesn’t speak for her, her closest political allies tell the same story. Laura Gillen has been a strong ally of Governor Kathy Hochul (D-Hamburg) for almost a decade, saying that, “we are lucky to have such a powerful, intelligent woman running our state.”
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She has also proudly carried the endorsement of the Working Families Party, a radical third party which calls for ICE to be abolished and sanctuary policies. The Working Families Party has been one of the primary driving forces pushing the Democratic Party to the left in New York, and as Kathy Hochul continues to cozy up to radicals in the New York Democratic party like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria), it is only a matter of time before Laura Gillen feels the pressure to follow suit and vote for even more radical policies.
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