~~~snip~~~ Immigration politics have similarly harmed New York.
Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city’s sanctuary policy against a 1996 federal law decreeing that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS.
When advisors cautioned against it, "Oh yeah?" responded Giuliani, "just watch me. "
The INS, Rooty claimed, with what turned out to be grotesque irony, only aims to “terrorize people.” Though he lost in court, he remained defiant to the end.
On September 5, 2001, Giuliani's handpicked charter-revision committee ruled that New York could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government.
Six days later on 9/11 several visa-overstayers participated in the most devastating attack on the city, and the country, in history.
New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicans—four of them illegal—abducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens.
The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses.
The NYPD had never notified the INS.
CONCLUSION Rooty doesn't govern----he "rules" like a tinhorn dictator. Rooty's sole concern was his political ambitions----to suckup to illegals fraudulently registered to voter.
Rooty's trampling the US Constitution and ignoring the US Rule Of Law is so typical of the 1940's-era utilitarian doctrine of the ends justifying the means.
How can Rooty deny that this mailer is true. I noticed that he didn’t really say anything to refute the charges, he just accused Romney of lying.
People just need to keep up the heat on Rooty. They need to force him to answer questions about his liberal past. They cannot let him get away with calling them liars, but failing to make him show evidence that their claim is not true.
The implication is that there was a policy change as a result of this incident. But it is silent on what it was. I will see what I can find out.
The article does say:
John Mullaly a former NYPD homicide detective, estimates that 70 percent of the drug dealers and other criminals in Manhattan’s Washington Heights were illegal. Were Mullaly to threaten an illegal-alien thug in custody that his next stop would be El Salvador unless he cooperated, the criminal would just laugh, knowing that the INS would never show up.
I don't see how Mullaly could have made such a threat if law enforcement employees were forbidden to call INS.
Of course, INS could always be counted on to do nothing.
BUMP