Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an executive order at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City in response to gun violence that he said is pressing forward to surge crime rates throughout the state and causing people to want to stay home even in a "post-COVID" era with lifted restrictions.
"[Permanent work-from-home] would be devastating for the economy. People have to want to come back to work, ... [but] they're not coming back unless they feel safe. ... The place that should step up and address it is the state of New York," Cuomo said.
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His executive order describes few actions targeted at controlling gun violence: treating gun violence as a public health emergency, using data to target hot spots, provoking positive participation to at-risk youth, breaking the cycle of escalating violence, and getting illegal guns off the streets.
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Cuomo attacked former President Donald Trump during his statement, saying he had a "vision of a border war" with a "magic border wall" that would allow migrants to pass while stopping the flow of illegal guns, 74% of which Cuomo said to come from out of state.
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"Here's my vision. It just came to me. Picture the border. We built a wall. We build a tall, big, a beautiful wall, and we have the wall [that] goes for miles, and we have a little gold leaf up at the top of the wall, [a] little, gold, shiny leaf, and then we put a big name across the wall, and the name is five letters. Do you know the name?" he said. "I can see it. Can you see it? 'C-U-O-M-O.' And it's a magic wall. People can pass, but illegal guns cannot pass. It's a magic wall. That's what we need here in New York, and that's what we have needed."
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The United States is fighting with a large surge of migrants crossing its southern border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered 180,034 migrants along the southwest border in May 2021, and reports show that an unprecedented 117,000 migrant children will enter the U.S. by the end of the year. The most recent border wave saw the arrival of 80,000 unaccompanied minors at the southern border in 2019.
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The governor also said his executive order will produce the first office in the U.S. to address gun violence within New York's Department of Health, claiming the rise in shootings amounts to a "public health emergency."
"We went from one epidemic to another epidemic. We went from COVID to the epidemic of gun violence," Cuomo said. "More people are dying of gun violence than of COVID."
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