-—”On Friday, October 11, 1996, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the City of New York filed suit in U.S. District Court against the U.S. Government and the Attorney General over provisions in the welfare and immigration reform acts that obligate city officials to communicate information about undocumented immigrants with the INS. The suit asserts that the City is responsible for general public safety and public health, both of which could be compromised if one segment of society is dissuaded from sharing valuable information with or seeking needed assistance from city police or health workers. The suit claims that these provisions of the Welfare and immigration bills violate the Tenth Amendment and the “Guarantee Clause” (Article IV, section 4) of the U.S. Constitution. The City is asking the court to declare section 434 of the Welfare Reform Act and sections 642(a) and (b) of the immigration reform act unconstitutional and void.”-—
There was a second suit directly against Welfare reform filed by Rudy. I’ll send it to you as soon as I am able.
http://www.ncsl.org/statefed/ib961023.htm#giuliani
Thanks very much for the link — I had heard about Giuliani’s flauting of federal immigration law, but had not heard about the opposition to federal welfare reform.