CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY: So what does a Buffalo-based, Tea Partyite, wealthy gubernatorial wannabe have in common with immigrant New Yorkers. Not a whole lot and he`s not even pretending to.

Republican Carl Paladino has made it crystal clear where he stands on immigration reform, especially as it relates to undocumented immigrants. In a city of immigrants, where many undocumented migrants are part of the many who keep the wheels of the state and the nation churning daily, Paladino says he will not be a governor for the undocumented.


And what are we to do with them pray tell Mr. Paladino? As far as he is concerned we should round them all up and send them back.

`If the law enforcement people apprehend an undocumented alien, they will be sent back, yes. They will be given to federal authorities for proper deportation. Because we believe in the rule of law,` he told reporters recently following a breakfast in the Bronx, an area he only visited for the first time recently.

And forget about any social help for the undocumented.

`We are not servicing them. We are not letting them come out in our social services programs; we are not letting them come out in our Medicaid programs. They can go someplace else and try to get in those programs in some other state. But the taxpayers of this state are not going to be servicing undocumented aliens, OK,` said the man who got over a million dollar tax break and created a single job.

As he added in his rather gruff, `fuggetaboutit` way of speaking: `You gotta go back to where you came from and come in on a clear path, alright, and earn it and then you are entitled to those entitlements.`
Immigrant voters need to take urgent heed. This is not the person we want in the governor`s mansion and leading a state of progressives and moderates. This guy is better suited for Texas or Arizona so I suggest the good citizens of this city wake up from their frustration and angst over the slow change that`s come from the Obama White House and vote on November 2nd.

It is not enough to sit back and complain and do nothing. Not voting is a vote for Palladino and that is not a choice considering the stance that this guy continues to spew.

Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic nominee for governor, must be the choice despite our many reservations. The alternative is not even an option.

`We are New York. We are the laboratory for the American experiment of democracy. The Statue of Liberty stands in our harbor,` he said. `We are the welcome mat for the nation. We are founded on the premise that we can say to the people all across this globe: Come here, we invite you,` said Cuomo recently. As an attorney general, he has been very active in protecting immigrant communities and has always been talking in favor of immigration reform.

We have to take Cuomo at his word on this and give him our votes come November 2nd and send Paladino back to Buffalo or back to whatever rock he crawled out from under.

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