It’s Wrong

A quote from Corradino: “Yes, I am a Republican, but first and foremost, I am a citizen of the United States and the Mayor of the City of Oswego, and I don’t mind, when something is wrong, saying it’s wrong … It hits home when you attack and say immigrants shouldn’t be wanted … My mother’s story is not unique,” the mayor writes. “It echoes the experiences of countless families who came to this country seeking safety, dignity, and a better life.”

Ok, so pass legislation recognizing the City of Oswego as a sanctuary city, as others have done. Your clerk was given model legislation at a prior council meeting based on Ithaca’s, but even at the time there was little hope that you would work proactively on this issue. Read New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman January 19, 2017 & March 12, 2017 Supplemental Memorandum, Guidance Concerning Local Authority Participation In Immigration Enforcement and Model Sanctuary Provisions. Here’s the full text of their legislation: https://ithacavoice.org/2017/02/tompkins-moves-become-sanctuary-county-heres-means/

Elsewhere, in an interview with an out of county publication, Corradino laments that “maybe they could have done a softer approach, gone in with human resource people from the community to sit down and interview people, find out the facts before they used a broad brush and a hammer.”

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It’s not the CITY’s problem to think about what else the county could do instead of allowing Big Government to raid a blue-collar factory on false pretenses, deceiving a small business owner, cutting jobs, and wasting our community resources by having our moral and upstanding Sheriff’s Department babysit a Federal operation (or not, depending on who you ask). As long as the CITY is unaware of their part in harboring a dangerous human trafficking operation at the Border Patrol offices within city limits — our ONLY connection is seeing them drive around every day in their white vans and tinted window SUVs!

Ithaca’s unanimous passage of their updated sanctuary laws limiting city police involvement in Federal law enforcement led to the Tompkin’s County Sheriff’s Department voluntarily following suit. Imagine that. Maybe Oswego will follow suit if Fulton wants to lead the way. Please let us know if there’s a “cultural issue” in any of our police departments that would prevent enforcing this legislation!

Now that you’ve seen and heard firsthand, will you act? It must have been heart wrenching not being able to do anything to alleviate the lifelong trauma, or put an end to the racist violence and fascist intimidation tactics being inflicted upon people in this country by modern day brown shirts. The least we can do at city hall, a stone’s throw away from Border Patrol, is to sign something that cements your position that we should have not only zero part in supporting their activity, but we should make it impossible, or at least extremely difficult, to use our city’s resources to further their goals. No public recruiting in the city of Oswego, mandatory public release of warrants used within our jurisdiction — hell, maybe even give them a speeding ticket to pay us back for using our roads!

Underneath their masks, ICE agents are the same social scum of the earth infesting 4chan message boards as we speak, congratulating each other on helping create their white ethnostate, and should probably be investigated by the FBI for what they’re saying to each other now that you’ve said you’re not on board with the heavy-handed Nazi stuff. Did they recruit that malnourished white supremacist at the bus stop the other day yet, did any ICE agents care to give him some cheese and crackers?

One week ago you heard the voices of your constituents. “On Monday, our Common Council meeting was filled with passionate voices expressing concern, frustration, and a desire for change. I understand their anger. I share their belief that something must be done,” but the only hint of action we get from this opinion is at the very end: “I urge our federal representatives to take meaningful action to reform immigration policy and ensure that any enforcement is carried out with transparency, fairness, and dignity. My mother believed in the promise of America.”
I still do. And I know we can live up to it.”

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How about instead of begging the Federal government to be nicer about deporting immigrants (please don’t tread on me!), we at least TRY passing model sanctuary city legislation? You might have your hands full educating your fellow Republicans about what a sanctuary city actually is, considering there’s a literacy crisis in this country.

Jack Straw

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