[jonathanmo]

He's not parsing. He's making a direct statement about his reasoning. In his view at the time as Mayor, he considered illegal immigrants that had broken no local crimes as a Federal issue. He considered illegal immigrants that committed a local crime as a problem for the city, and turned them over to the Feds.

This is a common thread among many larger cities. Rudy did not invent this concept. At a national level, George Bush has the same policy.

[dirtboy]

He's not parsing. He's making a direct statement about his reasoning.

IT ... IS ... PARSING. The federal law stated that known immigration violators should be reported to the feds. Rudy filed a lawsuit to try and block that policy. And lost. Yet kept the sanctuary city status anyway.

And Bush is just as wrong as he is.

[pissant]

Actually, GWB does not have the same policy. They have been deporting many thousands and thousands of illegals for no other crime than being here.