“Hi Bunny, what a pleasure to see you here. Pity we never finished our conversation about the merits of Rudy following and enforcing the law when it came to guns, but I see that you might need my help on some of this.
The subject policy was instituted by Ed Koch, not Giuliani, and I believe its rationale was to assist law enforcement by encouraging illegals to come forward to report crimes and testify without fear of deportation.”
I don’t need your help on it. I know the history of it. You can learn the history of it here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1528310/posts
Bloomberg was able to repeal it by executive order. Rudy could have too. Instead he fought the US government all the way to the supreme court to maintain the policy. And when he lost, he continued with it anyway. And we can see a result of it here:
“An example: a notorious and brutal rape was committed in New York in 2002. Four of the perpetrators were illegal aliens who had been in police custody before the crime but were released without notification to immigration officials who might have taken them into custody pending deportation proceedings. Instead the City’s sanctuary policy prohibited any officials from making the notification. The public outrage over this incident momentarily brought the policy into question. Ultimately Mayor Bloomberg repealed it by executive order—only to see it return, slightly modified, shortly thereafter in response to pressure from immigrant advocacy groups.”
Keep spinning, as you can see from rudy’s slipping poll numbers, fewer people are buying it.
Rudy defended the policy all the way to the supreme court.
I didn’t mean to imply that Rudy could not have repealed it. It was presumably created by executive order, and could be repealed by executive order. I think we both agree on the underlying facts now. Isn’t that splendid?