Posted on 04/21/2007 7:51:46 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Immigration restrictions gathering steam in the Republican-led Congress would have "catastrophic social effects" in New York City and other large cities, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday. He charged that the proposals violated basic decency and could throw as many as 60,000 immigrant children out of the city's schools and onto the streets.
Once again taking sharp exception with the dominant conservative wing of his own party, Mr. Giuliani said in an interview that the proposed crackdown on illegal immigrants was deliberately intended to play to the public's worst fears of foreigners, and did not take into consideration the positive effects of immigrants on cities like New York.
"It's based on an irrational fear of something different, something strange, that somehow they're going to take something away from us," he said. "A lot of it is just undifferentiated fear of foreigners, of people who appear to have different values or different ways of doing things."
In June, the Congressional Task Force on Immigration Reform, a Republican-dominated panel appointed by Speaker Newt Gingrich, issued a report containing dozens of recommendations on restricting illegal immigration.
The proposals, now being written into bills that are at various stages of consideration in House committees, would require public hospitals to report illegal aliens who seek medical treatment and would require public schools to turn away students who are in this country illegally. The report, which Mr. Gingrich endorsed, is similar to Proposition 187, a measure approved by California voters last November that would cut off most public benefits to illegal aliens.
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Just one more article on Rudy's tough stance on illegal immigration...or lack of it, I should say.
Ping of interest (Rudy, immigration, what have you).
Cultural Marxism leads ultimately to economic Marxism...
> He charged that the proposals violated basic decency and could throw as many as 60,000 immigrant children out of the city’s schools and onto the streets.<
Well, Rudy would have only himself to blame!
He’s done - no need to stick in a fork.
See! Rudy has a deep deep heartfelt desire for "the children". Well, except for his own........
Maybe Hillary will be better.
Actually, it's a rational concern about tens of millions of new citizen-voters tipping the electoral scales decidedly in the Democrats' favor and moving the nation's political center considerably to the left. And if we give illegals amnesty, you can bank on that happening.
Another good reason not to vote for Rudy.
A man who is a moral leper in the bedroom cannot be trusted in anything.
Of course she wouldn't be. But thankfully the contest isn't just between those two.
It's not irrational. They are already taking OUR money, OUR jobs, our classroom space, OUR grants and loans, and OUR gov't assistance.
A lot of it is just undifferentiated fear of foreigners, of people who appear to have different values or different ways of doing things."
Hopefully those different values would be breaking the law and allegiance to our country.
“He charged that the proposals violated basic decency and could throw as many as 60,000 immigrant children out of the city’s schools and onto the streets.”
How about throwing them out of the city’s schools and back to their own countries?
Don’t you have the tense wrong.
This article is from 1995. Pre-911.
Maybe it would be best if you stop trying to use that canard.
Allowing a liberal to become the Republican nominee on the backs of conservatives willing to sacrifice principles for victory at any price would marginalize conservatism in the Republican Party more than a Hillary presidency would. We would effectively kill ourselves as a philosophy.
If we vote for Giuliani, even though he willingly stands against a great number of conservative positions, that would be the same as telling people that we aren’t serious about our ideals. Who would take the conservative movement seriously anymore?
And, it would tell the Republican Party that they won’t need conservatives anymore.
That would cause far more long-term damage than the short-term damage by a Hillary presidency (and IMHO, it’s not guaranteed she’ll be the Democrat nominee anyway). If we could survive Carter and Bubba, we can survive Hillary.
Pro gun control and pro abortion stance does it for me … not getting my vote.
"Like Mr. Bush, Mr. Giuliani emphasizes the need for tough border controls."
That one sentence alone is snicker-worthy.
And how did I get the tense wrong? It's the title of the article. I can't change it. Besides, I noted that it's from 1995.
America can’t afford either of them now. The spectre of Hillary must not drive us into the horns of rinos.
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