Video, Audio, Photos & Rush Transcript: Governor Cuomo Signs Legislation to Increase Protections for Immigrant Children Across New York
Governor
VIDEO of the event is available on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/T02LCgKpVFo) and in TV quality (h.264, mp4) format here (https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/zMHnYoQLdy).
AUDIO of the event is available here (https://soundcloud.com/nygovcuomo/governor-cuomo-signs-legislation-to-increase-protections-for-immigrant-children-in-new-york-state).
PHOTOS of the event are available on
A rush transcript of the Governor's remarks is available below:
I do have to tell you a little story about the both of them, though. We have, once a year, something called the Adirondack Challenge. The Adirondack Challenge is when we invite everybody to go up to the Adirondacks to see the Adirondacks, because a lot of people in the
Last year, we have a big race, 30 rafts. The
We have done a lot of great things in this budget and in this legislative year. You'll hear about one of them today, but
He said, God forbid something happens and I'm not here to take care of you kids, that's what life insurance is about. I said, what do you mean God forbid? Where are you going? He said, well God forbid you could have a car accident, God forbid you could have a health issue, but I would want to make sure you kids were taken care of. And I was in my own way traumatized as a young child, you think about losing your parent. How could that be? Car accident, health issue and what do you do, and here's life insurance that can pay your bills, but you don't have your parents. But, life can create uncontrollable perils, and you have to be aware of them and protect yourself and that was life insurance. My kids are much smarter than I was. One of my daughters came to me a few years ago and said, Dad I want to sit down and talk about your life insurance policy. But the concept was uncontrollable events. Health events. And when my father spoke about them, he prefaced them with God forbid this should happen. God forbid I have a car accident. God forbid I have a heart attack.
We have perils today that are not uncontrollable perils. They are not God forbid perils. They are government created perils. Government created. Purposefully government created perils. Women are in peril. They could lose a right to choose. They could continue to be victims of sexual harassment with no address from the federal government. Union members face peril.
This is all done by the federal government. And it is real. And it is happening. Federal government has taken the agency ICE--ICE was supposed to be an anti-terrorism organization. It was formed after 9/11 to fight terrorism. ICE is now a political police organization for the President's political agenda. That's what ICE has become. And it is a deplorable use of a police department to politicize it the way Trump has. We have ICE walking onto farms in upstate
This is a government created peril. As Marcos said, in
But that is the reality of this new peril. It is a new peril. It's no longer just God forbid I have a heart attack or God forbid I have a car accident. It's maybe ICE will grab me at work and deport me. And what this bill says, recognizing that painful reality. What Assemblyperson Rozic and
We're going to sign the bill and I applaud the bill and I applaud the leadership on the bill because it's necessary. And because it's real. But I tell you this, I'm anxious for the day when I can sign a bill repealing this bill. When no one lives in fear of deportation because we understand that these are not the American values that this federal government is now spreading throughout the country. This is not who we are at our best. This is not our character, these are not our values, we are not people who take children from mothers and fathers. That's not who we are. We are not people who believe immigration is bad because we are all immigrants. We are not people who believe diversity is bad. We celebrate diversity. Diversity is what made America America. For this President, for this federal government to now take the position, well if you are a new immigrant then you're repugnant to the concept of America--there is no concept of America without immigration. We were nobody. There was no one here. There was no one here. We had to put up a sign that said, there is no one here in this land. We invite everyone to come join us. That was the invitation that we put out. White, black, rich, poor, didn't matter. Come here to this new land and we'll form one community out of all of us. E pluribus unum, out of many, one. That was us who said that.
And now this federal government preaches the exact opposite. They may not believe, they may not believe that the American promise is real. We know the American promise is real. Because we live it in
But this is not the way America is supposed to be. And we will change it and we will fix it and the people of this nation are going to rise up and tell this President and this
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