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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Rudy Giuliani says he wanted to deport all 400,000 illegal immigrants from New York City when he was mayor, but ended up welcoming most of those who were “causing me no trouble.” In an interview for the new book “Meet the Next President,” Giuliani lamented that the Immigration and Naturalization Service deported only 700 to 1,500 of the city’s 400,000 aliens each year during his mayoralty. Giuliani said it was obvious the INS was not about to increase deportation “from 700 or 1,500 to 400,000.” “If they could, I would have turned all the people over....

WASHINGTON -- -- After Congress passed a landmark welfare law with support from both parties, one prominent mayor became furious. His concern: a provision that would lead, he believed, to the "inhumane" treatment of illegal immigrants. He promptly dispatched his lawyers to file suit against the federal government. This was no bleeding-heart liberal championing the rights of illegal immigrants, but the Republican mayor of New York, Rudolph W. Giuliani. "I believe the anti-immigration movement in America is one of our most serious public problems," Giuliani said in announcing the lawsuit in 1996. "I am speaking out and filing this action...

Ramesh makes an excellent point about Rudy and immigration. (It's first-name day here at LP!) Basically, he (Rudy) has managed to be adamantly opposed to the McCain-Kennedy-Bush-Dobbs (no, sorry, not Dobbs) immigration bill, without drawing attention to the fact that he is extremely pro-immigrant (he was mayor of New York City, for chrissake) and probably even pretty darn pro-legalization. (How's that for use of parentheses?) Or, as Ramesh put it: He could have flip-flopped: But he does not want to get the same reputation as Romney. And he may want to leave open the possibility of pushing for an amnesty...

"Sanctuary" laws, which act as a shield for illegal immigrants are in effect in locations such as New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Miami and Austin and Montgomery County, Md., bar police from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities.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...

It was a great idea in 1985, when former New York Mayor Ed Koch issued an executive order forbidding city employees from reporting illegal immigrants to federal authorities. But in 1996, the year when new laws turn municipal workers into spies for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, it is a daring, commendable act of defiance by the Jersey City Council against the anti-immigrant forces that have driven this country into a needless state of paranoia. Last Wednesday, the council passed a resolution declaring Jersey City a"safe haven"for all immigrants, legal or otherwise. It declared that"no municipal resources will be used...

Archives of Rudolph W. Giuliani Conference on the New Immigrants Cowles Auditorium, Minneapolis Monday, September 30, 1996 Thank You, President Hasselmo, Minister Pagrotsky, Members of the faculty, Members and Friends of The Humphrey Institute... I'm pleased to be with you this morning to talk about New Americans and New Immigrants. This is a good time and place to discuss these vital issues. "The North Star State" is now celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Swedish immigration to Minnesota. Unless, of course, "The Kensington Stone" is right... in which case this would be the 634th anniversary of Swedish immigration of Minnesota....

DES MOINES, April 16 --Rudolph W. Giuliani is a long way from Ellis Island. A decade ago, as mayor of New York, Mr. Giuliani used that historic backdrop to champion the cause of immigrants, calling attacks on people who came here legally a blow to “the heart and soul of America.” And from City Hall he often defended illegal immigrants, ordering city workers not to deny them benefits and advocating measures to ease their path to citizenship. But now he is running for president, and the politics of immigration in the post-9/11 world is vastly different, with the issue splitting...

Mayor Giuliani takes center stage today as the champion of immigrant rights during a two-day conference that brings mayors from across the nation to Manhattan. "Politically it's good to be on the side of immigration if you're mayor of New York, but that's like saying politically it's good to reduce crime," Giuliani said yesterday. He said seizing the national spotlight on an issue that will help his reelection bid in a city where more than half the population is either an immigrant or a child of immigrants combines good politics with good government. The mayors of Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami...

Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gangbanger for...

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today joined a cross section of New Yorkers on Ellis Island to announce the creation of an Immigration Coalition that will mount a public education campaign to the vital contributions immigrants make to our nation and to overturn recently enacted federal anti-immigrant legislation and policies. The Mayor was joined by members of the Coalition, which includes business leaders, educators, writers, artists and representatives of community and immigration organizations from virtually every ethnic community in America. Representing the Coalition at the press conference were Manuel Matos, executive director of the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Dennis...

Giuliani did not address one issue that has the potential to seriously damage his efforts to win conservative support: his prior defense of "sanctuary" laws, which act as a shield for illegal immigrants. These laws, which are in effect in locations such as New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Miami and Austin and Montgomery County, Md., bar police from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani criticized Senator Bob Dole today for supporting Republican-sponsored legislation that would restrict Government aid to immigrants and called those restrictions "a terrible, terrible mistake." Mr. Giuliani cited measures in the legislation that would restrict public benefits to legal immigrants, allow states to bar illegal immigrant children from public schools and force local authorities and hospitals to report undocumented aliens who report a crime or seek emergency medical aid. The Mayor did not single out Mr. Dole during a speech before the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a policy and research organization. But in response to questions...

Archives of Rudolph W. Giuliani Immigration:The Progress We've Made and the Road Ahead Tuesday, March 31, 1998Hyatt Regency, Washington, D.C. Check Against Delivery Introduction Today, as we gather to talk about the state of immigration in this country, my thoughts immediately turn to a letter that I wrote in February to Attorney General Janet Reno. Last July 18th, New York City made a shocking discovery. We found over 40 deaf Mexican immigrants held in cramped apartments, forced to sell trinkets on the subways and routinely tortured, starved, and sexually assaulted by their bosses. The Mexican immigrants, including 10 minors,...

Rudy Giuliani speaks at Harvard at the Kennedy School of Government on immigration and the 1996 Welfare Reform Act on October 10, 1996. [Transcribed starting at 1:07] I don't think immigration, over the last 30 to 40 years, has been a terrible problem for America, as I tried to point out. I think immigration has worked pretty well. I think it has areas of problems. I think the federal government isn't doing enough about illegal immigration--focusing on the right people, the people that are committing crime. But by and large, I don't think the immigration system needs tremendous reforms. And...