Soon-to-be NY Governor Once Threatened to Arrest Undocumented Immigrants, Says Her Position Has “Evolved”

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Now disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was out.  Despite all his flaws, he could be relied on to be a supporter of immigrants. 

The City reports storm clouds surrounding the immigration record of new New York Governor, who will be  sworn in within weeks. 

Earlier this week, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, speaking publicly, insisted that she has “evolved” since fighting against driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants by threatening them with arrest and deportation.  More than a fifth of New York residents are foreign born.

“In 2007, while serving as the Erie County [New York] clerk, Hochul threatened to arrest undocumented immigrants who applied for driver’s licenses. Then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer sought to reinstate access to driver’s licenses for all after his predecessor, George Pataki, began requiring Social Security numbers for applicants in the wake of 9/11. `I had taken a position that has now evolved,’ Hochul said Wednesday in the most-watched appearance so far of a long career in politics. `And that evolution coincides with the evolution of many people in the State of New York.’”

KJ