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.
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?
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?