Anonymous ID: c33cf4 Jan. 7, 2019, 11:29 p.m. No.4658579   🗄️.is đź”—kun

New York Q&A: NY Gov. Cuomo Pardons Criminal Immigrants

 

On New Year’s Eve, during the middle of the government shutdown due to an impasse over funding for a border wall, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued 29 clemencies to criminal immigrants—22 of them were full pardons.

 

Among Cuomo’s pardons were convictions for assault, attempted arson, trademark counterfeiting, and drug convictions. The pardons include being spared from deportation. Seven of them were commuted sentences. Of them, four had been convicted of murder, and three for armed robbery. The Epoch Times took to the streets of New York to ask for people’s thoughts about this.

 

Thomas D’Alessio, 69, retired

 

I don’t agree with it. If you break the law, then you’ve got to pay.

 

I agree with immigration, but I don’t believe in people coming over here just to escape what they’re running away from. They’ve got to be model citizens, they’ve got to want to come here to build, they’ve got to have something in mind, a trade or a job, not just to be here on welfare. I don’t like people coming here just to escape their problems.

 

I’m a second-generation immigrant myself—from Italy. We came here to build it, they’ve come here to destroy it.

 

Matteo, 30, marketing director, from Italy

 

Francesco, 30, bank consultant

 

Matteo: I think if you’re an immigrant, you’re in another country, you have to be polite, you have to be respectful, you have to abide by the law like everybody else, like citizens of that country. If you get jailed for a crime that you commit, you have to spend your time there, you have to pay your debt to society—that’s it. It doesn’t really matter if you’re an immigrant or not. If the law says that you commit a crime and you have to be deported, then you should be deported.

 

More: https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-york-qa-ny-gov-cuomo-pardons-criminal-immigrants_2757938.html