From the article:
“Dignity” came up again in his discussion of immigration, where Giuliani suggested his measuring stick for whether he wanted to eject someone here illegally was whether or not they were working hard, willing to pay taxes and back fines and fees, and whether they were supporting their families.
He described his exasperation with the immigration authorities as mayor: “I had the police go after drug dealers, and I told the immigration authorities, ‘I got a couple hundred drug dealers you can deport, why don’t you put ’em first?’ And they said, ‘Well, we have this professor who overstayed his visa, he’s first on line. We have two people working in the back of a restaurant. We have three guys in the construction business. We have a guy who drives a van.’ Now you can debate whether these guys are good for the economy — I think they are, but you can have a nice debate about it — but I said, ‘Hey, I got drug dealers, pal. They’re not good for anybody! They’ve got no interest in paying taxes, not trying to make better life for their family, they’re trying to kill people!’ They said, ‘We have our priorities.’ Basically, the problem was too big.”
Rudy was the Rudy we’ve all seen before, invoking Reagan at every opportunity and not only using “optimistic” frequently, but actually demonstrating optimism, as when he said the illegal immigration debate was an illustration of an unrecognized greatness of America:
“I had the police go after drug dealers, and I told the immigration authorities, ‘I got a couple hundred drug dealers you can deport, why don’t you put ’em first?’
It looks like Rudee wanted to simply deport illegal alien drug dealers instead of allowing them to grow old in prison before deporting them?
What’s the deal here.....illegal aliens who happen to be drug dealers.......or drug dealers who happen to be illegal aliens?
Rooty talks welfare and immigration reform..
“Executive Order 124” protects undocumented immigrants in New York City from being reported to the I.N.S. While they are using City services that are critical for their health and safety, and for the health and safety of the entire city.
“And yet Section 434 of the new welfare reform law, and Section 642 of the new immigration law, would effectively invalidate New York City’s “Executive Order 124.”
“The federal government’s effort to overturn “Executive Order 124” is not only bad policy, it is a violation of the U.S. Constitution. It is my opinion that the new law is unfair because discriminates based on immigration status.
http://www.ibisnetwork.com/giuliani/text/immkenn.html
“Rudy was the Rudy we’ve all seen before, invoking Reagan at every opportunity and not only using “optimistic” frequently, but actually demonstrating optimism, as when he said the illegal immigration debate was an illustration of an unrecognized greatness of America:”
Good one!