By Hannah Preston
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A wave of fear is spreading through a luxury Long Island community, as New York's billionaires have grown fixated on security.
Billionaires across the Hamptons are installing bullet-proof glass, panic rooms and even infra-red technology, according to a New York Post report Saturday.
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The Post, and the right-wing members of the community, cite one of President Trump's talking points: the gang MS-13, often used as a proxy for fears about Hispanic immigration that the President and his allies stoke.
Chris Cosban, and his company Covert Interiors, charges between $25,000 and $200,000 for panic room installation.
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"The big thing [with homeowners] in the Hamptons is that if somebody has it, they [all] want it," said Cosban. "There is a wow factor ... They like to brag about it."
But could this investment be feeding into a false sense of security or just straight paranoia?
"In the Hamptons, it's hard to know if someone is an oligarch and lots of security makes sense, or if somebody is just paranoid," an East Hampton resident told the New York Post.
"I don't know why he needs that. But billionaires [like] security and there are a lot of billionaires in the Hamptons. I think they get more paranoid the richer they become."
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