Posted on 02/11/2007 8:54:54 AM PST by freedomdefender
On December 19, 2002, a 42-year-old mother of two was abducted and forced by her assailants into a hideout near some railroad tracks in Queens, New York. She was brutally assaulted before being rescued by a New York Police Department canine unit.
The NYPD arrested five aliens in connection with that assault. According to records that the Judiciary Committee has received from the INS, four of those aliens entered the United States illegally. Three of those four had extensive arrest histories in New York City. The fifth alien, a lawful permanent resident, also had a criminal history prior to the December 19, 2002, attack.
Despite the criminal histories of the four aliens, however, it does not appear from the records that the Committee has received that the NYPD told the INS about these aliens until after the December 19 attack.
These heinous crimes prompted extensive public discussion of whether New York City police were barred from disclosing immigration information to the INS, a policy that may have prevented the removal of these aliens prior to the December 19 attack.
Some suggested that the only reason that the three illegal aliens were in the United States, despite their extensive arrest histories, was because the NYPD officers who arrested these aliens previously were barred by a so-called ''sanctuary'' policy from contacting the INS. That policy, critics claimed, prevented NYPD officers from contacting the INS when they arrested an illegal alien.
We will examine New York City's policy on the NYPD's disclosure of immigration information to the INS. New York's Executive Order, or E.O. 124, barred line officers from communicating directly with the INS about criminal aliens. That executive order was issued by Mayor Ed Koch in 1989 and reissued by Mayors Dinkins and Giuliani.
Help me out here, Rudy supporters. Did he sign an "immigration sanctuary" order in NYC? If so, how does that square with his "law and order" image? As president, would enforce our borders, or say "come on in!"?
Rudy is just another open-borders elitist.
Rudy made NYC a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants? Can that be right? It's not as if I was going to support him, even before this issue arose, but if it's true it really validates my instincts that tell me he's a phony and a liberal.
For one thing, this "sanctuary city" crap exposes Giuliani's silly "I'm against abortion but I must uphold Roe v. Wade -- the law of the land" statement last week as one of the biggest piles of utter bullsh!t to come out of the mouth of a public figure in my lifetime.
I have no respect for an @sshole in public office who "upholds the law of the land" in such a selective manner depending on what suits his political agenda.
I have brought that point up many times. Expect silence or it was someone elses fault.
I guess Rudy's a "federalist" - he things each state (or city) should decide on its own whether or not to obey federal immigration law?
So it's Giuliani's fault that the policy was in place before he took office.
I suppose he's responsible for NYC's gun control laws too.
Giuliani left office in 2001. How come Bloomingidiot didn't modify or end the law then.
I hadn't heard about this matter, but I confess I find it shocking. Are you telling me that Rudy supporters will not address it? They'll studiously ignore any attempt to discuss it?
I don't think that "silence" will work when the primary debates begin. Somehow, I expect there will be at least one other candidate for the GOP nomination who might make an issue of Rudy and the sanctuary issue.
Good question. IT shows that, like Rudy, Bloomingidiot also isn't fit to be president.
What do you think kids?... Did I sound waffly on CNN today? (Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer)?... Did I get my points across with Wolf?
I AM THE HUNTER... The wolf is is not a match... :)
I like him EVEN MORE! :)
It's the feds' responsibility to seal the borders not Rudy.
I wonder what Rudy Giuliani would say if the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan decided to violate any number of provisions of the Patriot Act for the sake of political expediency.
You obviously didn't read the congressional transcript. The policy was instituted before Rudy's tenure - and then Rudy reinstituted it. This is shocking, and - if the congressional committee's statement is true - it clearly disqualifies Rudy for president. No wonder he hasn't made an official announcement yet. His candidacy would be destroyed by this issue in the Republican primaries.
It sure sound like I voted FOR the war but personally I'm AGAINST the war.
I am so sick and tired of this hypocritical DOUBLESTALK by spineless, parasitical politicians for self gain and more power.
You needed this issue to tell you that?
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