Rudy's views on immigration, especially illegals has not changed. NYC is a sanctuary city for illegals.
Cicero, I live in San Diego, the population of my city and county is far more than your entire state.
The southern border of San Diego runs along Mexico.
We have tens of thousands of illegals in San Diego costing us mega millions of dollars a year, not to mention
seeing southern CA turn into an annex of Tijuana.
California is Mexico's HMO
I sympathize. But Rudy had nothing much to do with it. Actually it was Ronald Reagan who was persuaded to give amnesty to illegal aliens, and then every president since. Plus the decision of congress way back when to change the immigration laws so as to let in revised quotas.
In 1996, it was clinton, and I think Gray Davis. California has a bad immigration problem, but you have to lay it primarily on the Feds and the California State government.
I agree that if Rudy refuses to change his position, it will be a negative. But he couldn't possibly be worse than clinton and Bush. And I'm not sure if any other major candidate will be a lot better. It's still early, and I suspect the candidates will mostly avoid talking about this hot button issue, for fear that their political enemies and the media will use it to bash them as bigots.