A spokeswoman for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo indicated that the governor “believes that the federal legal system should not provide a basis for any wrong doers to escape justice.”
Placing the statement’s incredulity aside — the governor is no friend of law enforcement and no serious person believes that he means that statement — it cuts to the core of the paradoxes buttressing a politics of expedience and self-righteousness. Pitiless imposers of the people’s retribution upon crimes — or, more aptly, criminals — for which and whom they hold contempt, New York’s simultaneous contention that federal immigration law’s teeth end where the cosmopolitan tolerance of its state lines begin is too ironic to be the fruits of anything but cynicism.
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