Posted on 04/19/2018 4:07:58 PM PDT by Hadean
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a New York City native, raised eyebrows last week after he claimed that he was an illegal immigrant and taunted officials to deport him. “I’m undocumented. You want to deport an undocumented person, start with me because I’m an undocumented person,” Cuomo, 60, said during a bill signing. During the bizarre speech, the New York governor criticized the "extreme conservative movement" for being "anti-immigrant." He said his family, who emigrated to the U.S. from Italy, was constantly ridiculed with a racial slur that he said meant “without papers.”
“I’m an Italian-American. I came from poor Italian-Americans who came here. You know what they called Italian-Americans back in the day? They called them wops,” Cuomo said, referring to the pejorative slur for Italians. “You know what wop stood for? Without papers.”
According to the Online Etymology dictionary, the slur originated from southern Italian dialect “guappo,” which means “dandy, dude, stud.” The dictionary said it’s not an acronym.
A day earlier, Cuomo addressed a group of union workers and said he was “raised by poor immigrants from South Jamaica,” a neighborhood in Queens, New York. His father Mario, a three-term governor of New York, was born in Queens to Italian immigrant parents. His mother, Matilda, was also born in Queens.
Immigrant advocacy group Make the Road Action has called on Cuomo to apologize for the comments.
“To Dreamer and immigrants like me, these fabrications are offensive,” Make the Road Action member Antonio Alarcon said in a statement, adding that the governor “has no idea what it’s like to live as an undocumented person.”
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I think he meant to say “indoctrinated”
Cuomo shouldn’t make jokes ,he might wake up in Italy
No. You're a moron. Just like your entire lunatic family.
Damascus, as a suggestion. Be awful sad if some fuzzy wuzzy sawed his head off with a butter knife.
I have no problem sending some of their offspring after them.
Well it is tempting.... can we send him to Italy and make him stay??
Let’s have ICE start deportation proceedings and see how fast he changes his tune.
Andrew was never too bright or rational.
How about the Italian part of what used to be Abyssinia, like [Italian] Eritrea?
I’ll just quote the punchline from the Italian Tire joke wop wop wop wop...
No, you're not.
You're nuts, just like all the other proglib comrats.
You need a new "white jacket" and a membership card to the Rubber Room Club.
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Bill Clinton- best black president
Obama - best women president
Hillary - was going to be best male president
Cuomo - I’m an illegal immigrant (and if so you’re not allowed to hold office...)
Democrats. Morons.
It’s like watching an episode of “The Office”.
Just another political stunt!
Only leftist liberals say ‘undocumented’
they are illegal aliens, or illegal foreigners, and very funny, haha, they are fully documented: with their foreign Id’s, foreign birth certificates, foreign passports etc.
Who came up with that travesty of calling then ‘undocumented’
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