State Sen. Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) has sounded the alarm that there are mere weeks left for New York to gird itself against Donald Trump becoming president again and parts of NY may want to think about seceding to Canada.
Krueger has been in the state senate since 2002 and serves as the chairwoman of the state Senate Finance Committee. In over twenty years serving New York, you’d think she would have gained some insight into her role in serving New Yorkers – not Canada.
Liz Krueger’s extreme ideology may be clouding her vision and her recollection of American history. The United States already fought a war to decide whether states could leave the union. The Civil War was a long, bloody war and the most costly in casualties than any other war in American history. Exactly what is Krueger suggesting and why?
Krueger is worried about protecting illegal immigrants from detention and deportation. She is also concerned about measures that would protect women’s sports and spaces from males participating and other measures to prevent chemical and surgical interventions on young children who are going through a phase of gender dysphoria.
Not to mention that over 43% of New York voters voted for Trump - the highest vote share for a Republican in more than 30 years. Does Krueger have such disdain for 43% of the electorate that she would completely ignore her responsibility to represent them too? Krueger seems to have forgotten that once elected you represent everyone.
Krueger proposed back in September as the election was approaching that New York should join Canada should Trump win. And not just NY should leave the union, she proposed leaving with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont. What those state’s residents have to say about the matter we don’t know.
Krueger said, “Oh, why do I have to leave this country? I love this country, and if Trump wins a second term, it’s not actually my fault or the people in New York.’ So I thought I would suggest to Canada that instead of us all trying to illegally cross the border at night without them noticing … they should instead agree to let us be the southeast province, a new province of Canada.”
She also said, “Basically everybody in these states are progressive Democrats,” and that they “would fit in pretty well with the political philosophy of at least most of the Canadian elected officials.”
Krueger also suggested New York withholding more than $300 billion in taxes it remits to the federal government. Even if she could get her colleagues to agree to such an extreme move, it is unlikely it could survive the courts.
Former ICE Director Tom Homan is Trump's new Border Czar and he has been clear that states that do not cooperate with and follow federal immigration law may have federal funds blocked. If the feds followed through with that threat, it would cost New York $85 billion.
“We’re talking a lot of money,” Krueger said. “We’re talking money we couldn’t possibly replace unless we started sending the feds a lot less money.”
NY State Sen. Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) and President Donald Trump | X