Regulations Announced to Crack Down on Repeat Toll Violators in NY

The tolling authorities, which includes the New York State Thruway Authority, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the New York State Bridge Authority and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, report that non-payment of tolls is a persistent problem.

“I think it’s a balance”.

Speaking to students Tuesday at the Harvard Kennedy School, Cuomo, a Democrat, said states have “no authority to turn (refugees) down”. “But their position is we can screen, we can screen effectively, and if that’s the case do the screening, make sure it’s right, do it exhaustively, but don’t give up your soul as America”.

NY is among the states that have received the highest number of resettled refugees from around the world over the past decade.

A few Republicans and conservatives in NY have called on Cuomo to take a stand against accepting the refugees, including several state lawmakers and Conservative Party chairman Mike Long.

The decision comes during a national fervor that has seen at least 30 USA governors declare their states to be a no-refugee zone just days after a terrorist bombing in Paris left 129 people dead.

The comments come as governors and elected officials around the country push back against plans to bring as many as 10,000 Syrian immigrants into the USA who are fleeing the civil war there. “This is an election season, so the silly season has started”, Cuomo said. “How? How? Where does it say in a state constitution you can refuse a person placed by the federal government?” “While many who want to help these refugees may have the very best of intentions, we can’t let public safety become a secondary consideration to political correctness”. He added that the day America says its time to close the gates and build a wall is the day it’s also time to take down the Statue of Liberty.

“If they really can’t screen, then we can’t screen”, he said. We owe it to every New Yorker to do whatever is necessary to protect them from brutal terrorists who openly threaten to destroy us and our way of life.