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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And Mario is a poor, pale shadow of a decent human being, so...
Cuomo is not a wop, he’s a Yankee!
Illegal aliens are documented citizens of other countries that broke into our country.
Most of them have fraudulent documents that they use in our country.
Fraudulently documented foreigners are illegal aliens and should be removed as swiftly and as surely as home invaders.
Clearly confused. He meant to say “Unindicted.” They need to accomodate him so he can go to one of the big concrete boarding schools run by his state..
Please, oh PLEASE!!!!!
Send him anywhere he wants to go.
Send the pr*ck to Gitmo and tell him it’s Italy.
Andrew is a disgrace to the fine Italian people I have known.
Mr. (Dickhead) Cuomo...
Following the U. S. Constitution and the laws of our nation does not make someone anything other than a decent law abiding citizen.
You are unfit to hold public office.
I doubt seriously that you abide by your oath of office.
Fredo! It’s time to go fishing!
he means he’s a bastard child and mario wasn’t his father... prolly half mailman
Just when you think he can’t do it anymore...he does it again. Cuomo jumps the shark about five times a day.
Cuomo should be taken for his word. Throw the bastard out!
I’ll take it.
Whatever works to get rid of him.
Not tough enough.
They are ALL Fredo.
Except for the father, whom I hated but at least was eloquent. He may have been a poor man’s Vito Corleone.
I’ve known some real life guys that were like Sonny, they were crazy.
BTW, descendant of Italians here, not ONE liberal out of FORTY ONE first cousins.
I spit on Andrew.
I die laughing at the Italian jokes and digs on here.
But if a liberal called me a WOP i’d bury them right then and there.
Nice
Not sure Italy would take him now.
I have seen Andrew Cuomo debate bright people, and all he can do is recite repeatedly, the same talking points. He just isn’t very smart.
In Cal president of the Cal senate and candidate for the US Senate, member of Reconquista, admitted on the floor of the legislature he helped his illegal family members come and stay here. Then two months ago he hired an illegal for state board. Is he afraid of being out in jail. No it takes balls to do that. The mayor of Oakland is still out walking around.
Kevin De Leon The De added so he would seem more ethnic.
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