While you're at it, Rudy, why not tell us about your immigration policies while you were Mayor.
OK, I'll go first.
Mayor Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city’s pre-911 sanctuary policy to thwart 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, Rudy claimed, with what turned out to be grotesque irony, only aims to "terrorize people."
Very poor choice of words, Rudy.
Though he lost in court, Rudy remained defiant to the end.
On September 5, 2001, Rudy'a own boys---his handpicked charter-revision committee---ruled that New York City could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential "to preserve trust between immigrants and government."
Six days later, on Sept 11, 2001, several foreigners who had overstayed their visas participated in the most devastating attack on New York City that our country had ever seen.
It's also worth noting that Moussaoui was originally arrested by the FBI on an immigration warrant -- something that Giuliani specifically forbade New York City employees from enforcing in any manner.
If the NYPD had arrested Mohammed Atta on 9/10/01 for jumping a subway turnstile and they had learned that he had open warrants for his arrest for an immigration violation, they would have been explicitly forbidden from detaining him for the Federal authorities -- under a municipal regulation that Giuliani himself proudly supported IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW.
I never thought I'd see the day when so many so-called "conservatives" would go out on a limb to support a liberal presidential candidate who ought to be serving time in a Federal prison right now.
Six days later, on Sept 11, 2001, several foreigners who had overstayed their visas participated in the most devastating attack on New York City that our country had ever seen.
Good catch.