The candidates for state attorney general, Andrew Cuomo and Jeanine Pirro, agreed on very little in their televised debate on Sunday – except neither would embrace Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy’s controversial immigrant workers’ law.
The issue was raised in the hour-long exchange by Univision TV anchor Antonio Martinez, and both candidates sought to distance themselves from the Suffolk measure, which requires all county contractors to certify that their employees are eligible to work in the United States. The Suffolk law seeks to strengthen a 20-year-old federal worker verification statute.
Cuomo, a Democrat, said if he were elected, “it is not my priority to enforce the federal immigration laws. Let the federal officials do that.” In recent polls, he leads Pirro, a Republican, by 13 points.
Pirro called for a balance between the country’s “security and economic needs” and a recognition that undocumented workers “are in this country because they want to work.” She also recalled her successful prosecution of the case of a beating death of an undocumented Hispanic man when she was Westchester County district attorney.
James T. Madore
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I do agree with this new era in immigration at some point for it will serve as a security in the country. It can also be the solution to the problems of maintaining a lower supplies of backlogs. It is very important nowadays to get the key immigrants at their most in a short period of time.This is not yet approved right? but I'll support this newly introduced legislation.
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LiLi
New York Immigration Lawyer Marina Shepelsky, located in Brooklyn, assists clients from the New York metro area and across the United States in all immigration and naturalization matters http://www.e-us-visa.com
I do agree with this new era in immigration at some point for it will serve as a security in the country. It can also be the solution to the problems of maintaining a lower supplies of backlogs. It is very important nowadays to get the key immigrants at their most in a short period of time.This is not yet approved right? but I'll support this newly introduced legislation.
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LiLi
New York Immigration Lawyer Marina Shepelsky, located in Brooklyn, assists clients from the New York metro area and across the United States in all immigration and naturalization matters http://www.e-us-visa.com