There’s no sanctuary from the previous.
Massive Apple mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo shouldn’t have a job in politics if he nonetheless helps sanctuary metropolis and immigrant-welcoming insurance policies that he enacted as governor, President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan mentioned Wednesday.
Cuomo signed the state’s Inexperienced Gentle Regulation in 2019 and in addition issued 2017 government order throughout Trump’s first time period that prohibited state legislation enforcement from offering sure immigration data to the feds.
“If he helps sanctuary legal guidelines, no, I don’t suppose so,” Homan mentioned when requested by The Publish about Cuomo’s bid at a political comeback.
The border chief’s gruff appraisal got here as he joined New York Republicans’ push to repeal the Inexperienced Gentle Regulation that permits undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses and limits such information sharing with the feds.
The GOP lawmakers rallied with Homan within the Albany state Capitol constructing to focus on their bids to slam the brakes on the license legislation and move New York’s Laken Riley Act, a invoice aiming to halt sanctuary insurance policies.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island) had voted in opposition to the Inexperienced Gentle Regulation when she was a state lawmaker in 2019.
“New Yorkers ought to do not forget that so many insurance policies we dislike — sanctuary state and inexperienced gentle legal guidelines, free school for unlawful immigrants whereas residents get saddled with debt, the botched bail legislation releasing repeat offenders and the congestion tax money seize have been dropped at us by Andrew Cuomo,” she mentioned.
State Sen. George Borrello, a Republican who was the Chautauqua County government when the Inexperienced Gentle legislation was authorized by Cuomo, mentioned opponents’ considerations concerning the legislation proscribing locals from working with the feds stay.
He famous that Hochul opposed the legislation when she was Erie County clerk and a congresswoman however modified her tune when she ran for governor.
“Andrew Cuomo is a hypocrite,” Borrello mentioned. “He was the champion of the progressive, pro-criminal insurance policies, and now he claims he’s not.”
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Cuomo spokesman Wealthy Azzopardi shot again that immigrants convicted of crimes stay topic to ICE enforcement.
He additionally defended the Inexperienced Gentle Regulation.
“Twenty states – Democratic and Republican – have comparable legal guidelines on the books — however regardless of this reality, in 2020 the primary Trump administration focused New York, unilaterally eradicating us from the Trusted Traveler Program,” he mentioned.
“On the time, we labored collectively to narrowly tweak the legislation to handle their said considerations and the feds accepted them — after which the U.S. legal professional on the time acknowledged the political nature of the Trump administration’s focusing on of New York, publicly apologizing for a collection of false and deceptive statements made by federal officers that ignored the opposite states with the identical legal guidelines.”
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