Mike Gianaris
Jan. 30, 2017 By Hannah Wulkan
Several local politicians have plans to propose legislation to fight back against some of President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration.
Assembly Member Nily Rozic, who represents parts of Kew Gardens Hills, Fresh Meadows and Bayside, has plans to introduce legislation in Albany this week that would prohibit the state from entering in to any contracts with companies working on Trump’s Mexican border wall, which he ordered to be built last week.
The legislation would require that the state keep a list of all companies involved with the border wall, and in addition to prohibiting contracts with them, would also prohibit certain public funds from being invested in the companies.
Rozic said that the legislation would be an “important step in pushing back against hateful, anti-immigrant rhetoric.”
State Senator Michael Gianaris, who represents much of Astoria, Long Island City and Sunnyside, also plans to fight back against one of Trump’s executive orders, and has plans to introduce legislation that would prohibit the Port Authority from expending any resources on Trump’s travel ban.
Trump signed an executive order on Saturday that barred citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days, and barred any refugees from entering the country for the next 120 days.
Though the order initially applied to a massive group, including those entering the country legally and those with green cards, some of those aspects have since been scaled back due to an order from a federal judge.
Gianaris, whose own parents immigrated to the United States from Greece, came out strongly against Trump’s order.
“President Trump’s executive order is as un-American as it gets and it falls upon each of us to take any measures at our disposal to resist by any legal means,” Gianaris said in a statement. “The State of New York should not spend one penny in support of this unconstitutional federal effort and I will fight to make sure we don’t.”
His new legislation would prohibit the Port Authority from supporting the federal effort in any way, including through supporting personnel, the use of airport facilities under its control or the provision of electricity and climate control in areas of the airport being used for the detentions.
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Whats not American about protecting our border moron Mike G? Not only Mexicans cross into the US, but people from all over the world come crossing illegally thru Mexico.. Not to mention the drugs and human trafficking. This country is going to shit! Now its not american and hatred for wanting our borders secure so no terrorist and/or maybe at least less drugs come thru, This country will sink just like many in europe losing control and due to refugees milking the system..
Is it true that mayor DeBalsio feels that welfare fraud and forcibly touching are not serious enough charges to notify the feds if the suspects are here illegally? Boy have fun riding the 7 train.
This is great! Thank you!
he is just like all of the other queens counsel people all for themselves and more money in their pockets which is true –
This country is a mess and too difficult in one lifetime to fix. Get rich or die tryin’.
The people have spoken, Trump won. All this outrage over the ‘Travel ban’ and the funniest thing is that the media forgot to mention that this ‘list’ was made by the Obama administración. These politicians clearly don’t believe in keeping America safe, they’re looking for political points. So these people were personally inconvenienced a few hours, and they’re losing their minds over that? Get the f*ck outta here’ I would rather these people get up and arms about waiting a few hours, then have another attack, where citizens are murdered by lunatics who flew in here and strolled in through the front door. Next time a tragedy happens’ we should send Gianaris and the rest of these clowns to explain to the family memebers of the victims, that we could’ve stopped these terrorists, but we didn’t want to inconvenience them upon arrival. What a joke, coming into this country is a privilege, not a right!
The people did speak. 10 million more americans voted for people not named Trump. No mandate, no popular support.
You should actually go do some more research on what Trump did vs. Obama regarding this list.
Also, you’re a dumb retard who keeps talking about keeping America safe. You have a 1 in 3.6 billion chance of being killed by a foreign terrorist. You have a greater chance of being hit by a bus, struck by lightning or shot by an american. Go learn something.
Yeah? Well maybe you can build a time machine, and travel to 1787′ and single habdedly convince the government to eliminate the electoral college. You know’ because that’s what the constitution was missing, for Harry Ballsagna to come along’ lmfao’
You empty-headed pez despencer!
“The people” did NOT speak. “The people”, nearly 3 million in number voted for Mrs. Clinton, the Electoral College put this maniac in power. As to your ill-informed not that the “Obama administration” made the list is totally incorrect. The Obama administration listed these nations (as well as others, as I recall) were “unsafe for Americans to travel to.” A huge difference. Being detained and inconvenienced for a few hours is one thing. Being barred from entry of people who hold Green cards, some for several days and some from being allowed to board their flights is not a simple inconvenience.
Trump won the election by the prespecified rules. That means he won an the people spoke, period. The Electoral College is designed to prevent a handful of regions from dominating our Federal Republic. Given that the entirety of Hillary’s lead in the popular vote can be attributed to her margin of victory (not total votes) in New York City and Los Angeles, I would say the system worked as intended and all the whiny about the popular vote is petulant sour grapes.
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That said I completely agree that green card holders should not be having to jump through hoops to enter the country, since they have been cleared by getting a green card. Still, there is nothing wrong with the country saying that people from de facto war zones will be barred entry – why take on the problem? It is a sovereign nation’s right to permeate its borders as it sees fit, and Trump’s rule has little to do with barring Muslims from entering the country. Personally, I would prefer much more rigorous standards for immigration, e.g., demonstrating a way to make an income or requiring university degrees. Nothing wrong with filtering out the low value immigrants from the pool and shunting them into a guest worker program.
What a dumb dumb
Malaka
Yeah. That’s a good way for NY to get none of the infrastructure money. These idiots always think the only way to deal with a situation is to boycott. Cuomo wouldn’t even sign such stupid legislation.