Posted on 05/12/2007 3:36:30 PM PDT by malibu2008
"Sanctuary" laws, which act as a shield for illegal immigrants are in effect in locations such as New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Miami and Austin and Montgomery County, Md., bar police from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities.
Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city's sanctuary policy against a 1996 federal law decreeing that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS. Oh yeah, said Giuliani, just watch me. The INS, he claimed, with what turned out to be grotesque irony, only aims to "terrorize innocent people." Though he lost in court, he remained defiant to the end. On September 5, 2001, his handpicked charter-revision committee ruled that New York could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government. Six days later, several visa-overstayers participated in the most devastating attack on the city and the country in history.
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Regardless of what he’s said in the past on this issue, I’d be VERY interested in learning if Giuliani still sticks to this position.
If he does, there’s NO WAY I’d ever vote for him.
RINOcrite!
IBTZ!
Reagan gave amnesty to the illegals in the 80’s.
So, you would vote for Hillary or Obama if it came down to that?
What about his views on homosexuality, gun control, abortion, taxation, as well as illegals?
Why do you think it would come down to that? Giuliani would first have to win the GOP nomination, which is now starting to look like his worst nightmare.
Giuliani has been so wrong on so many life and death issues it’s a wonder that he could even be in contention for a Schedule C job in the White House bringing coffee to the President on Tuesday afternoon.
Someone must have told Rudy he could ride 9/11 into the White House and he fell for it. With a liberal record like this the democratic primaries would have been so much easier...
Don't know why you reference Des Moines, but I'm not bothered with what you threaded about Guilani.
The IBTZ comment referenced your post: "LEAVE the GOP - go back to being a Democrat again."
Welcome to FR!
Rudy won’t be the candidate so the question is moot.
As far as Reagan and amnesty, that is part of the story.
The inforcement that was to follow didn’t thanks to a democrat congress.
We are now talking about over 12 million illegals who came here in the 1990s + These are the ones that are costing American tax payers billions of dollars a year and a fence along the border would have ended much of this problem.
Goodbye Rudy!
My bad in that the comment was meant to have read - “RUDY, LEAVE the GOP - go back to being a Democrat again.”
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