So this will become the new criminal defense, fear of being deported drove the man to shoot police officers. If they had just let him use the stolen subway card, he wouldn’t have shot them.
Has Bloomberg declared NYC a sanctuary city? If he has, shame on him.
It's been a sanctuary city for years--no one has changed it. Bloomberg, Giuliani, Dinkins... I believe it first became a sanctuary under Ed Koch.
New York became a sanctuary city, where illegal immigrants enjoy some measure of protection, through an executive order signed by Mayor Ed Koch in 1989, five years before Giuliani became mayor in January 1994.
But if Giuliani inherited the policy, he reissued it and seemed to embrace it.
At a June 1994 press conference, Giuliani decried anti-illegal immigration policies as unfair and hostile.
“Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens,” Giuliani said at the time. “If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you’re one of the people who we want in this city. You’re somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=3459498&page=1