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.
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.