Posted on 04/13/2007 6:57:52 AM PDT by pissant
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today joined a cross section of New Yorkers on Ellis Island to announce the creation of an Immigration Coalition that will mount a public education campaign to the vital contributions immigrants make to our nation and to overturn recently enacted federal anti-immigrant legislation and policies.
The Mayor was joined by members of the Coalition, which includes business leaders, educators, writers, artists and representatives of community and immigration organizations from virtually every ethnic community in America. Representing the Coalition at the press conference were Manuel Matos, executive director of the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Dennis Walcott, president of the New York Urban League, renowned mezzo soprano Teresa Stratas, and bestselling author Frank McCourt.
"What better place to launch our campaign for the rights of immigrants than here on Ellis Island, the golden door through which millions of immigrants passed on their way to a new life in a new land," Mayor Giuliani said. "I want to thank the concerned Americans and New Yorkers and the 63 community and ethnic organizations who have stepped forward to be in the vanguard of a nationwide campaign to defend immigrants and immigration as vital to the economy and spirit of America."
To underline how important immigrants are to New York City, Mayor Giuliani and City Planning Commission Chairman Joseph B. Rose released The Newest New Yorkers, 1990-1994, a comprehensive report which outlines immigration trends in New York City during the first five years of the decade when 563,000 legal immigrants arrived in the city. (See Mayoral Press Release 016-97 for details of the report.)
The Immigration Coalition's first order of business will be to call on Congress and the President to repeal provisions of the recently enacted welfare and immigration laws that discriminate against immigrants. On October 11, 1996 the City of New York filed suit in United States District Court against the federal government and its provisions concerning immigrants. The City continues to press the court case.
According to Mayor Giuliani, New York City will also be hosting a national immigration conference early this spring to plan a national strategy to fight the widespread cuts in benefits to legal immigrants. Mayors and County Executives from localities with large immigrant populations will be invited.
"The U.S. accepts over 700,000 legal immigrants every year," the Mayor said. "We invite them here to create better lives for themselves and their families and the overwhelming majority of them take great advantage of their new opportunity. In return for the privileges of American residence, immigrants pay federal , state and local taxes at the same rate as American citizens. Under the new laws, the federal government will now largely abandon them if they experience the same problems and difficulties some American citizens face. Withholding these benefits from immigrants , who are here legally and whose taxes help pay for these very programs, is arguably unconstitutional and certainly unfair."
MAYOR RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI'S IMMIGRATION COALITION List in Formation January 9, 1997
Prominent Individuals (25)
Herman Badillo, Celia Cruz, Rita Di Martino, Milos Forman, Bill Fugazy, Alan Greenberg, Oscar Hijuelos, David Henry Huang, Bianca Jagger, Ang Lee, Cho Liang Lin, Peter Max, Frank McCourt, Zubin Mehta, Roberto Mendoza, I.M. Pei, Itzhak Perlman, Carlos Santana, Hans Schindler, Ron Silver, George Soros, Isaac Stern, Teresa Stratas, Preston Robert Tisch, Jacqueline Weld.
Prominent Organizations (64)
Accion Latina ACDP (HighBridge) Afghan Community Center Alianza Dominicana American-Bangladesh Friendship Association The American Jewish Committee Arab-American Family Support Center Asian American Bar Association of New York Asian-American Business Development Center Asian-American Federation of New York Asian-Americans for Equality Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Asociacion Benefica Cultural Father Billini Association of Hispanic Arts Caribbean American Center of New York Caribbean American Chambers of Commerce Caribbean Women Health Association Center for Immigrant Rights Center for Migration Studies Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council Children's Aid Society Chinese-American Planning Council Citizens Advice Bureau Coalition for Asian-American Children & Families The Coalition of Voluntary Mental Health Agencies, Inc. Council of Jewish Federations Crown Heights Youth Collective Dominican Women's Development Center The Educational Alliance El Diario Emerald Isle Immigration Center Hamilton-Madison House, Inc. Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Hispanic Federation of New York Hispanic Women's Center Human Services Council Immigration and Refugee Services of America Japanese-American Social Services, Inc. Korean American Family Service Center Medgar Evers College Metropolitan Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund The National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium National Asian Peace Officers Association National Korean American Service and Education Consortium National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials National Council of La Raza National Immigration Forum The National Immigration Law Center New York Immigration Coalition New York Association for New Americans New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce New York Urban League Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights Noticias del Mundo Organization of Chinese Americans Polish & Slavic Center Refugee Woman Council Spanish Broadcasting Systems Supreme Council for Asians in Law Enforcement Telemundo UJA--Federation of New York Victim Services/NY Immigration Hotline WADO Radio
Elected Officials (3) Una Clarke, Councilmember Lloyd Henry, Councilmember Claire Shulman, Queens Borough President
You and Pissant seem to have a double standard when I post factual history about Hunter's use of the power of the pig to steer millions of dollars in useless defense contracts to his campaign contibuters. And when the issue is Giuliani and Kerick, you and Pissant are the first to yell "guilt by association," yet when the discussion turns to the relationship between Hunter and convicted felon, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, your response is "BFD." Again, rather than going negative on Giuliani, tell us why we should vote for a no-name, career politican, who has absolutely no executive experience whatsoever, and is polling so poorly that his numbers are lumped into the catagory designated as "other."
Fred Thompson’s record on guns...
Voted NO on background checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
Voted NO on more penalties for gun & drug violations. (May 1999)
Voted YES on loosening license & background checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
Voted YES on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks. (Jul 1998)
180 deg. from Rooty.
He would have to extend his own Hate Crimes laws to cover unkind words to “those who pander to gays”. Right now it just covers ther gays and the various “victim” minorities.
I must admit, you are funny.
I’ve seen that before somewhere on FR, and I should have bookmarked it, but it was awhile ago.
I you can find it, that one quote is enough to completely disqualify Rudy from POTUS....A silver bullet if you will.
Duncan Hunter’s record on guns...
Voted YES on prohibiting product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers. (Oct 2005)
Voted YES on prohibiting suing gunmakers & sellers for gun misuse. (Apr 2003)
Voted YES on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1. (Jun 1999)
Rated A+ by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun rights voting record. (Dec 2003)
180 Deg. from Rooty.
Hardly. Last I checked, there have been no allegations of wrongdoing against Hunter. Your argument reeks of the CFR "logic" - that the contribution "quid" automatically equals the "quo." But, then again, your hero Rudy still supports CFR, so I can see why you believe that way.
And when the issue is Giuliani and Kerick, you and Pissant are the first to yell "guilt by association,"
Gee, Rudy had Kerik as a business partner. And personally pushed him for Homeland Security Director. But don't let that stop you from proceeding to your typical idiotic attempt at moral equivalence:
yet when the discussion turns to the relationship between Hunter and convicted felon, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, your response is "BFD."
Gee, last I checked, Cunningham was NOT elected by Hunter.
Your efforts to draw such absurd levels of moral equivalence are telling. That is a favorite tactic of liberals.
Again, rather than going negative on Giuliani,
Like I said, y'all point to his tenure as mayor as his primary qualification. And then turn around and call factual posts of his clear liberalism as mayor "bashing". Y'all are rank hypocrites and whine like Dems when called on your double standard, and then engage in the absurdity of trying to draw equivalence between Cunningham and Kerik.
tell us why we should vote for a no-name, career politican, who has absolutely no executive experience whatsoever, and is polling so poorly that his numbers are lumped into the catagory designated as "other."
You keep missing the second part of my tagline. Fred is a fine second choice. And unlike Rudy, both Hunter and Fred ain't rampant liberals.
The problem is there are 200 silver bullets in his chest, including the topic of this thread. The Rudiacs don’t care. But our job is to let the fence sitters know about his leftism.
I told Dirtboy it will take crosses, stakes and a mallet.
Governor Corzine would not be in the hospital if he had been in Rudy’s RINOmobile.
I love that picture.
O’REILLY: You know, you stop it and then back.
When you were the mayor in New York, illegal immigration rose in this city tremendously. I mean, you can’t get a cab now with an American in there.
GIULIANI: But crime declined immensely….
GIULIANI: The Immigration and Naturalization Service would only deport 1,500 to 2,000 a year. So I said to myself I have 398,00 illegal immigrants because the federal government is not going to do anything about this. It can’t. So I had to figure out how do I deal with it so that I regularize them, so that I.
O’REILLY: So how did you do that?
GIULIANI: They don’t commit crimes. They don’t - well, we made sure that their children were allowed to go to school for which we were criticized. But if I didn’t do that, I would end up with children on the streets. If I had just said well, illegal immigrants can’t have their children in school. And we tried to make their lives reasonable.
O’REILLY: How about city services?
GIULIANI: It would have been.
O’REILLY: Did you give them city money?
GIULIANI: Sure, we did. If they were necessary services. We allowed them, for example, to report crimes.
O’REILLY: Without being — asked what their status was.
GIULIANI: Because we wanted the criminals who were committing the crimes.
O’REILLY: Right.
The record is duly noted.
There were here illegaly but did not commit a crime.
Other than being here illegally, procuring false documents, engaging in identity theft, making false statements on employment applications.
But none of those crimes makes Rudy look bad.
Try to keep your tears in check that none of your candidates have even close to nationwide support.
Your approval rating is about zero, especially after your slur at the female freeper last week. But keep pretending you have support; maybe after you get suspended again for a week you’ll understand you’re on thin ice.
Except that Rudy was briefed in 2000 about Kerik's possible mob ties when Kerik was slated to become commish.
Rudy says he doesn't recall the briefing (where have we seen that routine before?)
So either Rudy wasn't paying attention during the briefing, or was too unconcerned about it to recall it later.
Neither speaks well for Rudy when you consider he was being told that his choice for top law enforcement officer had possible ties to organized crime.
Oops, there I go, bashing Rudy again. The nerve of me, questioning the judgement of Rudy the Most Wonderous Mayor of All Time.
Like I said, using your logic, FR should not have been the pre-eminent anti-Clinton site, since Clinton had high approval ratings.
Why are people who call themselves conservatives supporting this liberal? I just do not understand. It just keeps getting worse and worse.
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