The Evolution of Rudy
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I hadn't seen this Youtube until today. Forgive me if you have. As if I needed another reason to not support Rudy.
The following are some tidbits of info courtesy of www.ontheissues.org
"BorderStat & virtual fence: just stop people from coming in. (Nov 2007)
FactCheck: NYC acted like "sanctuary city", in all but name. (Nov 2007)
Sanctuary city policy helped make NYC most legal city in US. (Oct 2007)
FactCheck: NYC not "sanctuary" but did welcome illegals. (Oct 2007)
Declared NYC a sanctuary city, and crime fell. (Sep 2007)
FactCheck: Feds deported 4,000 illegals in NYC, not 2,000. (Sep 2007)
AdWatch: New citizens must read, write, & speak English. (Aug 2007)
AdWatch: Deport convicted criminals who are illegal aliens. (Aug 2007)
AdWatch: English literacy already a citizenship requirement. (Aug 2007)
Need tamper-proof IDs, and database for immigrants. (Jun 2007)
Reform bill fails to document who left US and who's here. (Jun 2007)
Shouldn't be debating LEGAL immigration, only ILLEGAL. (Jun 2007)
Allow immigrants to work, with tamper-proof ID cards. (May 2007)
Let illegals' kids go to school, or they'll be on streets. (May 2007)
Change rule barring immigrants from running for president. (May 2007)
Supports Senate guest worker plan & path to citizenship. (Nov 2006)
NYC services for illegal aliens. (Oct 2005)
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One of my favorites...
"People that come in illegally we gotta stop. You stop illegal immigration by building a fence, a physical fence and then a technological fence. You then hire enough Border Patrol so they can respond in a timely way. And then, if anybody becomes a citizen, we should make certain that they can read English, write English and speak English, because this is an English speaking country."
Of course that isn't Rudy's only 2007 declaration on immigration.
"The federal policies weren't working, stopping people coming into the United States. If I were president of the United States, I could do something about that by deploying a fence, by deploying a virtual fence, by having a BorderStat system like my COMSTAT system that brought down crime in New York, and just stopping people from coming in, and then having a tamper-proof ID card."
I'm not putting words into the mayor's mouth, but 9/11 changed everything. Where illegal immigration was a social problem pre-9/11, after it became a national security issue to secure the boder and document who is here. Giuliani needs to frame it like that. It takes too long to frame as, I had 2,000 murders and 600,000 illegal aliens when I took over mayor of New York City. I prioritized that stopping felonies against the citizenry was more important that hunting down illegal aliens washing dishes in restaurants.
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