Homeowners in Long Island, New York, were confused and outraged when they recently received recruitment pamphlets for the Ku Klux Klan at their homes.

Fernando Alvarez, who lives in Hampton Bays, said that after KKK fliers were delivered to his home, he wasn't sure if he and his family were being targeted by the notorious hate group or if he received the leaflet at random.

"We were really shocked that ... in this area we can have KKK," Alvarez said, CBS New York station WCBS-TV reports.

He is part of the Latino community in Hampton Bays, a popular town in Southampton that is 30 percent Hispanic.

Hampton Bays homeowner Brandon Scibek says that he also received a KKK recruiting flyer.

"It's unfortunate," he said. "It's not something you can really prevent. It's covered under freedom of speech."

Another Southhampton resident said that he found the fliers stuffed into his mailbox.

"It is offensive," he said. "There's no doubt about it."

Sister Mary Beth Moore of the local community center St. Rosalie's said she didn't appreciate the anti-immigration and bigoted propaganda being distributed in her neighborhood.

"These people came in the middle of the night," she said. "We know somebody heard their dogs barking at midnight. These are people who are not honorable enough to share their point of view in the daylight, and we hope they go back to North Carolina, where their horrible little pamphlets came from."

According to police, the KKK is protected by the First Amendment and no action will be taken against them at this time.

"No charges at this time," Southampton Town Police Sgt. Susan Ralph said. "Right now, it's relating to freedom of speech. We have referred the incident to Suffolk County Police Department's bias crimes unit."

Ryan Lenz, a senior writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, told CNN that the Klan has launched a wide recruitment effort across the nation and that similar fliers have been reported in many different U.S. cities since the beginning of the year.