Posted on 03/16/2017 9:30:46 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Gov. Cuomo has sworn to protect New York’s immigrants, no matter what the cost. So why are some of his allies turning them over for deportation?
New reporting revealed that construction unions closely tied to the governor are leading an effort to report and deport undocumented immigrants in upstate New York. In fact, the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters is openly boasting about its tactics in Buffalo, which have already led to several raids and arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“The carpenters union devotes a lot of money and resources to this,” said Bill Bing, an official for the union, who is apparently very proud of his anti-immigrant work.
That might have come as a surprise to Gov. Cuomo, who has positioned himself as both an opponent of deportations and a champion of construction unions. It is now clear that the he can’t have it both ways.
But it will be easier and smarter for Gov. Cuomo to change course on one of these two issues.
One path – backing off his defense of immigrants – would tarnish the governor’s relationship with progressives in New York and nationwide, likely killing any chance he has of running for president in 2020. He knows that as well as anyone else.
This is a man who responded to President Trump’s immigration orders by declaring: “If there is a move to deport immigrants, I say then start with me.” If he forgets or ignores that commitment, his liberal credibility will evaporate, and rightly so. . .
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The democrat party is made up of factions that don’t all get along with each other. Obama chose his envirowhacko wing over his union wing in the Keystone Pipeline saga.
Blacks, Jews, Mexicans, LGBT’s don’t fit comfortably together. They are all lolled with Dem BS.
Those who come here illegally are crossing our borders without invitation or permission.
They’re not immigrants. They’re invaders.
Those who use the word ‘immigrant’ when discussing illegal invaders are either too stupid to know what they’re talking about or are playing for the enemy.
Choose the American worker, easy.
Negotiate honest and fair contracts, everyone wins.
Frankly, they are trying to humiliate Trump like terrorists aimed to humiliate Bush on 911. Democrats are waging a soft islamo-illegals 911 and Unions never liked them one bit. Sad when we have to rely on the Italian mafia smugglers to keep our roots and assert citizenship over government registration smuggling schemes
Cuomo is reals scum, real scum, it runs in the family
The free stuff seems more unifying than the working class Constitutionalists.
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