What I find most offensive about Rudy is none of the above. I dislike the gun-grabbing and the illegal alien enabling. He disregarded the Constitution in regards to the 2nd amendment by his gun grabbing and disregarded federal law by making NYC a sanctuary city. No one gets to pick which laws and which part of the Constitution they want to uphold.
which cities and local municipalities use their police forces to directly enforce immigration laws? here is an interview with Rudy on the topic:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2006/08/rudy_on_immigration.html
you'll see that its a practical approach to running a city, in a country where the federal government does very little to deport illegals. some highlights:
GIULIANI: The Immigration and Naturalization Service would only deport 1,500 to 2,000 a year. So I said to myself I have 398,000 illegal immigrants because the federal government is not going to do anything about this. It can't. So I had to figure out how do I deal with it so that I regularize them, so that I.
O'REILLY: So how did you do that?
GIULIANI: They don't commit crimes. They don't - well, we made sure that their children were allowed to go to school for which we were criticized. But if I didn't do that, I would end up with children on the streets. If I had just said well, illegal immigrants can't have their children in school. And we tried to make their lives reasonable.
GIULIANI: But you've got to take a practical approach to it. There are 12 million illegals in this country. We got to stop illegals from coming in. And a tremendous amount of money should be put into the physical security that's needed to do that.
People and technology. At the same time, you've got this tremendous number of people who are below the table. As long as you don't know who they are, as long as you can't get them to come forward, you can't identify them, you can't photograph them, you have to figure out who they are, then you have a dangerous situation.