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Posted on 03/20/2007 1:08:26 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
End Sanctuary for Illegal Immigrants
by Michelle Malkin (September 24, 2002)
What does fighting terrorism have to do with stemming massive illegal immigration? Much more than government officials have been willing to let on over the past year.
When September 11 hijackers Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar needed help getting fraudulent government-issued photo IDs before embarking on their suicide mission, they hopped into a van and headed to the parking lot of a 7-Eleven store in Falls Church, Va. That's where scores of migrant day laborers -- the kind whom immigration advocates refer to as "undocumented" -- gather to find work and ply bogus identity papers.
Nearly one year after the terrorist attacks, I drove to the 7-Eleven that Hanjour and Almihdhar visited. It's a stone's throw from the Pentagon, where Hanjour and Almihdhar deliberately crash-landed American Airlines Flight 77. The parking lot was, as usual, filled with Hispanic day laborers. Local cops suspect that most of these men are here illegally and that they continue to facilitate trade in fake identification documents. But nobody arrests them.
This is an all-too-familiar scene from the border states to the heartland. Public officials talk tough about the need for improved cooperation among local, state and federal authorities to fight terrorism. Yet, several major cities, including the home of Ground Zero, continue to serve as safe havens for illegal aliens -- and as magnets for immigration outlaws with more nefarious aspirations.
Falls Church, Va., is an informal sanctuary, where the local government maintains a hands-off attitude toward illegal aliens unless they commit other crimes besides immigration violations. Several major cities have actually incorporated this policy formally.
Los Angeles led the way by declaring itself an official sanctuary for illegal aliens in 1979, when the city police commission issued an order at the city council's behest barring cooperation between local cops and the INS. Special Order 40 also forbids police from questioning anyone about immigration status until after criminal charges have been made. Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and New York City all adopted similar policies -- and cling to them today.
Barely two months after the September 11 attacks, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stated his commitment to preserve the Big Apple as a formal sanctuary for illegal aliens. "People who are undocumented do not have to worry about city government going to the federal government," Bloomberg vowed.
This assurance was stunning coming from the new mayor of a city still covered in rubble as a result of foreign terrorists who exploited our lax immigration policies at every turn. But Bloomberg was simply following in the bipartisan footsteps of his predecessors. New York City's sanctuary policy was created in 1989 by Mayor Ed Koch and upheld by every mayor succeeding him.
When Congress enacted immigration reform laws that forbade local governments from barring employees from cooperating with the INS, Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed suit against the feds in 1997. He was rebuffed by two lower courts, which ruled that the sanctuary order amounted to special treatment for illegal aliens and were nothing more than an unlawful effort to flaunt federal enforcement efforts against illegal aliens. In January 2000, the Supreme Court rejected his appeal, but Giuliani vowed to ignore the law.
The Twin Towers are gone and Giuliani is out of office, but the city's policy of safe harbors for illegal immigrants stands.
The overwhelming majority of illegal aliens, of course, have no connection to terrorism. But our continued high tolerance for massive illegal immigration gives terrorists deadly cover. More than half of the 48 Islamic radicals convicted or tied to recent terrorist attacks on the U.S. over the past decade either were themselves illegal aliens or relied on illegal aliens to obtain false identification documents.
Illegal aliens participated in the first attack on the World Trade Center, the Los Angeles Millennium bombing plot and the New York subway bombing plot. Three of the September 11 hijackers were here illegally at the time of their attacks.
Shoring up our consular offices abroad, tightening visa issuance policies for tourists and legal permanent residents, and improving border security are only part of the battle against terrorism. Homeland defense also requires vigorous interior enforcement of immigration laws against all those who slip through the cracks.
Repealing sanctuary laws in our major metropolitan centers is a small but long overdue first step.
Mr. Law and Order seems to lack respect of the law now does he.
Reason #16 why Rudy is NOT the man for the job.
Rudy's stand on illegal immigration betrays his supposedly strong stand against terrorism.
It has been said over and over here on FR for a long time - any War on Terror that does not shut down our borders is no real war at all.
Of course, some Freepers (FINOs?) will come out swinging that Rudy is the last-best hope for the Republicans to defeat Hitlery...
And I will not go vomit just because I thought about Rudy...
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there is no way local government can use its police forces, to do what INS cannot do. I've seen Rudy's pressers on this - in a country where INS is deporting 3000 people a year, a place like NYC with 400K illegals, can't use its police powers to go house to house and find them, to root their children out of schools, out of hospital emergency rooms, etc. If these illegals commit crimes, that's a different story.
this is the practical reality of having to run a city, in the face of a federal government that does nothing about this problem. These large cities aren't going to be places where children can't go to school and are otherwise on the street, or emergency rooms become "round up zones" for illegals - all done with local police forces, while INS deports hardly anyone.
"By filing the lawsuit, Republican Giuliani kept a promise to fight the provisions and fueled his momentum as a self-described national spokesman in favor of immigration, a position that has set him aside from many Republicans."
http://www.cnn.com/US/9610/11/immigration.suit/
Yer right, sir, the lessons to be learned from "America's Mayor" and illegal aliens are:
if there's a law you don't like, just ignore it;
and,
if it looks like a tough problem, just give up.
a country where INS is deporting 3000 people a year, a place like NYC with 400K illegals, can't use its police powers to go house to house and find them,
mmmm they don't have to. Police officers come across these people during everyday police work.....without actively searching for them. Pretty simple to incorporate another law into their enforcement.
Buh Bye RINO Rudy.
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You've swallowed the bilge Rudy is spewing. No one said the local police had to enforce immigration law. However, the local police have to cooperate with the Feds and cannot actively shield illegal aliens from the enforcement of immigration laws. This is what Rudy did and what the Federal Courts told him was not legal.
"There's juth no political perthentage in buthting illegals."
---Julie Yawnee
Wrong and Buh Bye you wathcally gun grabber.
I might : )
BUMP!
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BS, buddy, I call BS on your post. Cities don't have to arrest illegals, they simply have to turn them into INS. If our feds were actively pursuing illegals this would be enough, until we get a president who wants to keep our country soveriegn we won't hope for that. Rudy is a law breaking asshat and he contributed to 9/11 by ignoring immigration laws and requiring city personel to NOT report illegals. This greatly aided the terrorists in their dirty killing spree. Instead of being proclaimed a hero of 9/11 he should be touted for what he really did, aiding and abetting,indirectly, but aiding none the less.
As for you "seeing Rudy's pressers on this" what the hell do you think he is going to say about his lawbreaking policy? What makes you think it is ok for him to break the law? Does he have an immunity the rest of us lack?
Stupid of him.
It's gotten so bizarre here that in the aftermath of that tragic house fire in the Bronx a couple of weeks ago (in which 10 people lost their lives), nobody wanted to go near some of the most important question of all . . .
Why the hell was this family of polygamist Muslim illegal aliens to settle here?
here's an interview he did on the topic with regards to how NYC conducted itself:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2006/08/rudy_on_immigration.html
Which states and local governments are using their police to actively round up illegals - at schools, emergency rooms - to set them up for INS deportation? are they doing it anywhere in the country (except for Arpaio in Arizona)? show me a conservative state that does it.
see post #19.
which cities are using their police forces to identify illegals to INS for deportation? INS hardly deports anyone. if an illegal is caught committing a crime, that's a different story. but I know of no locale in the country that uses their local police to conduct "round ups". you can go to any state in the country, and in the parking lot at the local Home Depot, are illegal day laborers wating for jobs - untouched by local police.
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