Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo weighed in on the migrant crisis, urging his successor, Kathy Hochul, to sue the Biden Administration to recoup the billions of dollars it’s going to cost New Yorkers to support the thousands of illegal immigrants the president let into the country.
“The emperor has no clothes,” Cuomo said of Biden in putting the responsibility for immigration and border enforcement directly on the White House. “The states should sue the federal government for the entire fiasco,” he said.
Cuomo compared Biden and his fellow Democrats who put out sanctuary invites to the entire world to an “army marching off the cliff, one after the other. It makes no sense.”
Cuomo, whose resignation in 2021 in the midst of an alleged sexual misconduct scandal cleared the way for Hochul, went on: “This is not a political issue when we’re doing something that hurts the public and makes no sense. We have to stand up and say, `This makes no sense.’”
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Under intense pressure from members of his own party to do something, Biden agreed to give thousands of Venezuelan asylum seekers temporary protected status, making it easier for them to work legally in New York.
“Right now, the migrant issue is chaotic — and I’m not even talking about the border,” Cuomo said, calling it “bizarre” for the federal government to put the problem on the states without allowing them to issue work permits. “The states should just do it since the federal government has abdicated its responsibility,” the former governor declared. “The state must act to protect its own interest.”