[SJackson]

Yourself or anyone else who might be familiar with the situation. NYC had/has a large illegal population. One of the issues I think isn't addressed often enough is the status of FICA and tax witholding on compensation paid to illegals. Rudy was straightforward in preventing enforcement of federal law, so I guess I can't blame him for that. However NYC is one of the few cities with a city income tax. Were taxes witheld and remitted? If so, were the ID, I presume social security, numbers valid or false? Were employers of illegals prosecuted for any violation of the city tax laws. Non collecting, non remittance of witholding or maintainance of false ID records, all I which I presume is illegal in NYC.

[KDD]

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 innocent 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.

I didn't know New York City levied a city income tax...Do they?

My State doesn't even levy a tax on income. It was mentioned in Tallahassee once(and critters started crawling out of the swamps) and we never heard another word about it again.