Posted on 04/02/2007 5:47:45 AM PDT by pissant
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani criticized Senator Bob Dole today for supporting Republican-sponsored legislation that would restrict Government aid to immigrants and called those restrictions "a terrible, terrible mistake."
Mr. Giuliani cited measures in the legislation that would restrict public benefits to legal immigrants, allow states to bar illegal immigrant children from public schools and force local authorities and hospitals to report undocumented aliens who report a crime or seek emergency medical aid.
The Mayor did not single out Mr. Dole during a speech before the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a policy and research organization. But in response to questions from the audience, he warned that Mr. Dole, the likely Republican Presidential candidate, would be committing a damaging political mistake if he followed public opinion polls that show broad antipathy to illegal immigrants and to immigrants who receive public benefits.
"He'd be responding to the political consultants' analysis of how he should run for President as opposed to a more intuitive analysis, which would be: This is an opportunity to show you're a leader, a statesman and that you can step beyond the most immediate form of public opinion and really go to the core of what makes America such a great country," Mr. Giuliani commented after his speech.
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They put down 1.2 billion when they passed the law in october. Construction has started. Bush is proposing to fund 1/2 of the 700 miles (actually closer to 850 miles) for FY 08. Even Chertoff was down for a photo-op last month with a welding torch.
“I’ll wait to see what Rudy says about this stuff in 2007.”
Me too. Ten and twenty years ago, very few states would join the few getting clobbered.
Consequently several more years passed, with both parties doing nada.
I believe Bush came into office planning to do serious work on the issue. But first 9/11/01 came along.
Next Bush put forth his proposal, flawed as it was. And by 11/06 there was an impasse.
I believe immigration is one reason Nov. 2006 turned out so badly for Republicans. Voters on both sides expected a unified government could do better over six years.
Now we are essentially starting over. McCain is modifying his position. Let’s wait to hear Guiliani speak for himself in 2007.
Here in SoCal several cities and a couple of counties (Orange, San Diego) are putting more emphasis on illegal immigrants. Ditto several cities across the land. No court has stopped them.
From what I have heard Rudy say, he still holds to this danagerous view. Along with the Kerik scandal, he gets low marks on WOT.
Silly rabbit!
Rudy supports the Bush plan.
Rudy supports the Bush plan....”
Nope, here’s what he said just recently when he was campaigning in New Port Beach, California:
On immigration, he told reporters he doesn’t support amnesty for illegal immigrants, but he could support a guest worker program if there were adequate border security and tamper-proof ID cards. He said that even if illegal immigrants “can demonstrate that they are lawful, that they are paying taxes [and] that they’ll pay penalties,” they still shouldn’t be put ahead of people who go through legal channels.
“And citizenship here, if it’s earned, should be premised on being able to read and write English and understand American history, so we restore assimilation to the process of immigration,” he said.
Which is what Bush said also.
And guess who get to pay to teach 12 million illegals to read and write English, and teach them history?
As if that will ever happen.
Just more empty promises from Rudy.
Since the media has chosen Guliani, McCain, and Romney as the 2008 Republican Nominee, I guess we have to look at their records.
Guliani has kept New York a sanctuary and I already know that McCain is an illegal alien sellout. What’s Mitt Romney’s record?
Not sure about Mitt’s record. It can’t be worse.
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