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Romney favors more visas for foreign seasonal workers 10/13/2007, 11:23 a.m. ET By JOHN FLESHER The Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Saturday he favored issuing more seasonal visas to foreign workers in industries such as agriculture and tourism while cracking down on illegal immigration. Campaigning in northern Michigan, where many employers have struggled to fill jobs in hotels and restaurants during the summer tourist rush, Romney said more temporary workers should be allowed where there are labor shortages. "The answer to that is simple, which is issue more visas," Romney told reporters....

It's over. The tempestuous love affair between Rudy Giuliani and New York City is headed for divorce court. It's a mutual, bitter split. Voters strayed first. Ever since the former mayor left City Hall in January 2002, many New Yorkers have airbrushed him out of their pictures. Like cheaters ashamed of a one-night stand, liberal New Yorkers woke up and lied to themselves — they never voted for that Republican! Now Giuliani is returning the favor. Just as he dumped his second wife before the TV cameras, he is dumping much of the crossover approach that made him a great...

Associated Press Rudy Giuliani, who sued firearms manufacturers and called for tough gun control as New York's mayor, said Tuesday the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a recent court ruling framed his current defense of a right to own guns. "You have to look at all of these issues in light of the different concerns that now exist, which is terrorism, the terrorists' war on us," the Republican presidential contender told The Associated Press in an interview. He also mentioned immigration and border security. He said his thinking on gun rights also was influenced by a federal appeals court decision...

Glenn Beck's website has an inconsistent interview with Rudy Giulianion illegal immigration. First, Guiliani says illegal immigration isn't illegal. GLENN: Right. But isn't illegal immigration a crime in and of itself? GIULIANI: No. Then Guiliani says it shouldn't be illegal: GLENN: Should it be? GIULIANI: Should it be? No, it shouldn't be because the government wouldn't be able to prosecute it. We couldn't prosecute 12 million people. We have only 2 million people in jail right now for all the crimes that are committed in the country, 2.5 million. If you were to make it a crime, you would...

Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- As he campaigns ahead of a critical statewide straw poll this week, pro-abortion ex-New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to confront the issue of abortion. The emphasis on overcoming objections pro-life Republican voters have about his pro-abortion position comes as one poll shows few GOPers know he backs abortion. Though Giuliani and John McCain are skipping the Ames straw poll this week, he is still working hard to try to persuade Iowa voters to support him."It will have whatever impact it has, but it's not going to stop us from competing in the...

For years Rudy Giuliani tried to finesse his position on abortion with pro-life Republican voters. In order to disguise his support for so-called abortion rights, the former New York mayor professed to hate abortion. “I’m against abortion,” Giuliani declared in a recent campaign appearance in South Carolina. “I hate it. I wish there never was abortion, and I would counsel a woman to have an adoption instead of an abortion.” Hoping to parse the issue in such a way that would neutralize (or confuse) pro-life Republican voters in the presidential primaries, Giuliani repeatedly professed his personal loathing for abortion while...