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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“Pro gun control and pro abortion stance does it for me … not getting my vote.”
It drives me crazy that we have to sit helplessly by and watch this leftist win the Republican nomination.
How does one organize a grassroots mutiny?
“If we could survive Carter and Bubba, we can survive Hillary.”
Really? Well, just how many disasters *can* we survive? There has to be a limit, and it feels to me like we’re approaching it.
No, Rudy, it is not. It is the fear of becoming Mexico or any third world country with only the social strata of the wealthy and the slave caste. It is the fear of having to watch the middle class disappear, the backbone of this country. It is the fear of taking on vast numbers of people who don't believe in ANYTHING this country stands for. It is the fear of having Americans once more accept near-slavery as something useful or helpful to the economy.
Spend a week in the SoCal suburbs and cities, Rudy.
Civil War, Pt. II?
Honestly, I don't think Hillary has a chance. Her connection with Clinton corruption is just too ingrained in the populace; she'd probably be just as divisive to the Dems as Rudy would be to conservatives.
Agreed . I ain’t votin’ for no RINO . The man I agree with most is Ron Paul , but he is the darkest horse in the field with little $$$ .
Touche'!
“Civil War, Pt. II? “
More likely the death of the thousand cuts, as the left deprives us of our ability to defend ourselves as a country and a culture.
I wonder how long Rudy will be able to hang onto the shark ???
“Leper in the bedroom...”
Oh great, just brought to mind the old Sam Kinnison tapes I have around here ~somewhere~
A person could probably get bounced off FR for quoting from that routine.
However, unlike real lepers, moral lepers represent a danger to our Republic.
Rudy Giuliani has made too many flip flops during his years in politics for my likeing and I don’t think his stands on illegal immigration and the Second Amendment are going to help me vote for him at all.
“Why is he doing it? I mean, even if he feels that way, is this a smart strategy?”
One thing about leftists that you can depend upon is that they overestimate by orders of magnitude the percentage of the population that agrees with them on any given issue.
He probably things there are just a few noisy conservatives, and most Republicans really agree with him.
He’s agin’ guns and fer illegals and killin’ babies.
Some folks here about figger he’s our best hope.
Me neither.
“I hate to break this to the Rudy Pootie Bots, but true conservatives are never going to vote for this fraud. “
I held my nose and voted for Bush, but I just can’t control my gag reflex on this one.
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