Sadly for all of us, there isn't one politician running who actually has a chance of winning who is willing to address the immigration issue in the manner in which you want it addressed. I never stated how I want the immigration issue addressed. I was merely making the point that Rudy, by making N.Y. a sanctuary city, was flaunting his violation of immigration laws and that this belies any pretension that he is a "law and order" candidate.
Then there isn't a single Republican who can run as a law and order conservative, and I don't believe that for a second.
Rudy went after the mob, was Reagan's #3 man at DOJ, wouldn't meet with race pimps, kicked Arafat out of a concert hall at a time Arafat was the most frequent visitor in the Clinton WH, and stood behind the police strongly and without wiggle room when the police were wrongly accused time and again of being racists and bigots.
Rudy stopped the social work of the police departments and returned them to law and order priorities and made the city safe once again to visit.
Because he did nothing about one issue, an issue that no other candidate who has a chance to win is willing to address appropriately, it seems you are unwilling to consider seriously the other law and order issues that he did enact, and so there's really nothing more to say to each other.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/rwg/html/98a/lulac.html
"We saw the Federal Immigration Law for what it was: an imminent threat to the nation. We understood that if New York City -- a city that was built and continues to be built by the energy, drive and enthusiasm of immigrants -- if New York City didn't speak up, we couldn't expect anyone else to."
"Finally, there is another piece of news that signals movement in the right direction. Two weeks ago, a federal judge in California overturned most portions of California's Proposition 187, which sought to restrict benefits and basic social services of illegal immigrants.
This is significant because Proposition 187, which passed as a referendum in 1994, was one of the catalysts for the nationwide anti-immigration movement and has been one of the most controversial pieces of state legislation depriving immigrants of benefits. Hopefully, the fate of Proposition 187 -- both its passage and its most recent defeat in court -- will be markers of the start and end of this most recent wave of anti-immigrant sentiment."
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Not quite a States' Rights Advocate unless the state's advocating his favored politics.