NEW YORK: GOVERNOR CUOMO ATTACKS AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY, PARDONS 22 ILLEGAL ALIEN CONVICTS TO STOP DEPORTATION
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo thinks like California Governor Jerry Brown.
He wants to make the country safe for dangerous criminals, particularly illegal-alien criminals.
Cuomo pardoned 22 illegal aliens who could have been deported for their crimes. Not that Cuomo followed Brown’s lead.
This is the second time that Cuomo, a hard leftist, has pardoned
criminals to undermine not only immigration law but also President
Trump’s attempt to stop the illegal-alien invasion on our southern
border.
At Least He’s Honest
To his credit, Cuomo was honest
about the reason for the pardons. He wants to poke the president in the
eye and keep illegal aliens in the country, who will, in all
likelihood, cast their ballots for Cuomo and other hard-left Democrats
if they ever become citizens.
That future voting bloc is what congressional Democrats who are
refusing funds for a border wall hope to protect. A steady stream of
illegal aliens will, eventually, provide Democrats with the voters they
need to cement a permanent one-party socialist state.
Most of the illegal-alien criminals Cuomo let skate were drug dealers
or dope fiends. But one was a robber, one was guilty of assault, and
two had attempted arson.
Cuomo’s message falsely accused
Trump and immigration authorities of “Waging a War on our Border
Against Immigrant Communities” and claimed that the “Pardons Build on
[the] Governor’s Record of Defending the Immigrant Community.”
As well, avers the long-winded excuse for undermining immigration
law, Trump has shut down the government “over his obsession with keeping
immigrants out.” That, of course, is false. Trump’s “obsession” is with
illegal border crossings and phony claims of asylum, not legal
immigration at ports of entry.
Cuomo and his people know that, but at any rate the governor’s
Ministry of Information didn’t stop there. It also touted Cuomo’s
efforts to “support the immigrant community and defend immigrants
against federal attacks.”
The latest directive followed the lead of other states that block Immigration and Customs Enforcement from doing its job:
lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s policy of forced family
separation on the U.S. southern border. To protect immigrants from
overly aggressive deportation tactics increasingly utilized by ICE, the
Governor issued executive orders to prohibit ICE arrests in state
facilities without a warrant, prohibit state agencies and officers from
inquiring about individual’s immigration status unless required by law
or necessary to determine eligibility for a benefit or service or
disclosing information to federal immigration authorities for the
purpose of civil enforcement.
In Keeping With Sanctuary
This is at least year two of Cuomo’s war against American sovereignty. Last year, in a “rebuke” to Trump, as the New York Times put it, he pardoned 18 immigrants.
Out on the left coast, Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown has repeatedly pardoned illegal aliens.
The pardons are part of legal war to make entire states into
sanctuaries for illegal aliens. As well, those states are passing laws
that forbid state and local cops from cooperating with federal
immigration authorities.
But those laws don’t just shield illegal aliens who might have
committed only a petty theft or drug crime but then turned their lives
around. That’s how Cuomo explained his subversion of America immigration
law.
Sanctuary laws also shield dangerous murderers, as two recent cases show.
In California, police allege, an illegal alien murdered a cop who had pulled him over for drunk driving.
The county sheriff blamed
the murder not just on the suspect himself, but also on the state’s
imprudent sanctuary law that forbids cops from holding illegal aliens
for deportation after they are arrested.
ICE twice deported the suspect, whom police say is tied to a dangerous gang, and who had two convictions for drunk driving.
In February, a sanctuary county in the sanctuary state of New Jersey released an illegal alien that ICE wanted for deportation. ICE had issued a detainer on the man in December 2017.
He fled to Springfield, Missouri, and murdered three people in November.
At month’s end, the state’s attorney general ordered
all state and local law enforcement to stop cooperating with ICE or
honoring detainers to keep illegals in jail until ICE can take them
deportation.
But back to Cuomo. The governor of New York, who has sworn an oath to uphold the federal and state constitutions, thinks ICE agents are “thugs.”