Double Talk on Immigration
from Rudy Giuliani
ampaigning
for support from the conservative voters in Aiken, South
Carolina, left-wing Republican presidential candidate Rudolph
Giuliani claimed he would end illegal immigration to the
U.S. He claimed he would build a fence along the border
with Mexico and require all foreign workers and students
to carry tamper-proof ID cards, with information on all
foreigners collected into a single national database, and
that he would deport alien criminals.
A press release issued by his campaign headquarters said
"Rudy Giuliani is commited to ending illegal immigration
by enforcing immigration laws and controlling America's
borders. The Mayor's commitment calls for deporting any
illegal alien who comits a felony and building both a physical
and a high-tech border fence, while deploying a larger and
better trained border patrol."
Trouble is, while mayor of New York City, Giuliani gave
sanctuary to illegal aliens and even welcomed them to his
town.
As mayor, he continued the policy established in 1989 by
left-wing Democrat Mayor Ed Koch, who issued an executive
order prohibiting police from investigating the legal status
of aliens they encounter. Giuliani renewed the policy under
his watch, and advocated admitting more illegals.
"Some of the hardest-working and most productive people
in this city are undocumented aliens," he said as mayor.
"If you come here and you work hard and you happen
to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people
who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to
protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often
a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair."
In 1996, during a speech in Minneapolis, he defended the
sanctuary policy, saying it "protects undocumented
immigrants in New York City from being reported to the INS
while they are using city services that are critical for
their health and safety, and for the health and safety of
the entire city."
That same year, Mayor Giuliani filed suit against the federal
government to stop implementation of federal rules that
sought to encourage government employees to turn in illegals
trying to use taxpayer-provided public benefits.
Scariest of all Giuliani's pronouncements on immigration
is this one, from his official press release announcing
his vow to stop illegal immigration: "It is important
to accomplish these goals in
order to preserve and expand legal immigration."
So while pretending he will end illegal immigration, Giuliani's
real goal as president is to increase the already rapid
foreignization of the U.S. by importing ever greater numbers
of immigrants.
