"Giuliani had been working for years to make NYC an open sanctuary city for illegal aliens. He even threatened to break the law and defy Congress to make it so."
I see. This should put a dent in the numbers, lol.
LOL...ya think? ;-)
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. Oh yeah? said Giuliani; just watch me. The INS, he 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, his 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, 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 department had never notified the INS.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
IMO, anyone on FR who can blithely ignore this is no conservative. Not even close. They're simply doing a bad imitation of one.
And those who somehow claim some kind of credential for this guy in terms of national security need to have their heads examined...