Posted on 04/20/2007 2:28:13 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Mayor Giuliani takes center stage today as the champion of immigrant rights during a two-day conference that brings mayors from across the nation to Manhattan.
"Politically it's good to be on the side of immigration if you're mayor of New York, but that's like saying politically it's good to reduce crime," Giuliani said yesterday.
He said seizing the national spotlight on an issue that will help his reelection bid in a city where more than half the population is either an immigrant or a child of immigrants combines good politics with good government.
The mayors of Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami and Seattle highlight the conference, which will push for changes to the landmark 1996 welfare reform laws, which cut off a variety of benefits to legal immigrants.
After sessions today at the Sheraton New York Hotel, the forum moves to Ellis Island tomorrow for release of a statement calling for treating legal immigrants the same as citizens in applying for benefits, and speeding up naturalization so immigrants can become citizens.
Even Giuliani critics give the mayor credit for standing up for immigrants in the face of cutbacks orchestrated by conservative Republicans in Congress working with a Democratic President.
"Of course it's a useful thing to do, but he takes polls like every one else," Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer said at yesterday's Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Dominican-born City Councilman Guillermo Linares (D-Manhattan) applauded Giuliani's defense of immigrant rights but said the new city budget does not contain money to offset the effects of welfare reforms.
"Maybe, just maybe, this conference reflects precisely a first step towards that," Linares said.
Giuliani's defense of immigration has taken him to Boston, Washington and Minneapolis for speeches.
He has filed two suits against the federal government, one demanding that the city be allowed to keep its executive order giving illegal immigrants access to schools, police services and hospitals, and a second arguing that denying benefits to legal immigrants who pay taxes violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection.
Mayoral aides reject critics who complain that the conference brings together people who already agree with their boss.
"I don't know that is preaching to the converted as much as letting the country know there is a very significant group of people who believe the new welfare laws treat immigrants unfairly," said senior mayoral adviser Anthony Coles.
"It's an important message to get out."
1) Go to UAB online library.
2) Click on database icon (magnifying glass)
3) Click on "L"
4) Scroll down. Click "LexisNexis News"
5) Switch to "Guided News Search."
6) Input the following into the fields:
Step One: General News
Step Two: Major Papers
Step Three: RUDY HEADLINES ON IMMIGRATION
Step Four: From 1996 to 1997
Click Search.
7) The article should pop up.
Okay.
I think this line says it all.
He has filed two suits against the federal government, one demanding that the city be allowed to keep its executive order giving illegal immigrants access to schools, police services and hospitals, and a second arguing that denying benefits to legal immigrants who pay taxes violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection.
Hmm. A round-up of mayors gathered to protest the welfare reform laws passed in 1996...
Why do I get uneasy flashbacks to the Mayors Against Gun Control?
Yep. Rudy doing what he does best - working against conservative Republicans.
But he shore does want our votes now.
This ignorant little prick belongs in jail.
As time goes on, it looks more and more like he will be “our” candidate....I am feeling sick....but you know what? We MUST vote for him to keep a power-mad Marxist out of the Oval Office ESPECIALLY with a socialist dominated congress -— God help us.
Yet another reason Giuliani is unfit for command.
So to keep a power-mad Marxist out of the Oval Office, we would have to vote for a power-mad authoritarian who shares the Marxist's views on abortion, gun control, gay rights and many other areas?
You got the "God help us" part right.
Rudy is NOT going to get the nomination.
So to keep a power-mad Marxist out of the Oval Office, we would have to vote for a power-mad authoritarian who shares the Marxist’s views on abortion, gun control, gay rights and many other areas...
January 9, 1997:Rudy Giuliani forms Immigration Coalition with La Raza, George Soros
and other lefist "Immigrant Rights" groups to oppose "repeal of provisions
of the recently enacted welfare and immigration laws that
discriminate against immigrants"
We now have a number of freepers in lockstep with George Soros on immigration. How nice.
They have nothing but straws to grasp onto. I hope FR is instrumental in sinking his candidacy. Some point in the near future, I’m going to collect all the articles posted here, titles and links, start a thread and email it to every conservative blogger, talk show host, and right of center publication.
Yeah. Mass e-mail.
I should do that in about a month. By then the list of articles will be so overwhelming, it cannot be ignored.
I’ll list the titles, a key quote or two and the link. I’ll also send it to every other GOP candidate.
>As time goes on, it looks more and more like he will be “or” candidate. ......We MUST vote for him to keep a power-mad Marxist out of the Oval Office....<
That’s just what the MSM & Co. want us to think, Eagle. As things stand right now, if push comes to shove, I would vote for ANY Republican candidate OTHER than Giuliani. It is a long time until the primaries. And there are changes on the way. Do not lose heart.
We now have a liberal New Yorker, masquerading as a Republican, in lockstep with George Soros
on immigration, abortion (and more, I would guess). How sad. ;-)
If you love illegal immigration and open borders, vote for Rudy.
He makes Ted Kennedy look like a law abiding conservative.
I suspect that a hundred such articles could be posted and it wouldn’t make a lick of difference to the hardcore RINO Rudy supporters on here.
And there are changes on the way. Do not lose heart.
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