Rudy Now Says He Wanted To Deport 400,000 Illegals As Mayor -- Contradicting What He Said At The Time
Another day, another Rudy fib. The Washington Examiner reports today that Rudy is now saying that he actually wanted to deport all 400,000 illegal immigrants from New York when he was Mayor.
“If they could, I would have turned all the people over," Rudy, who's trying to win over nativist GOP primary voters right now, told the paper. Rudy claimed that the Immigration and Naturalization Service wouldn't do it, however. "It would have helped me. I would have had a smaller population. I would have had fewer problems.”
Rudy had a funny way of expressing this desire at the time, however. Back in 1994, he said (via Nexis):
“Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you’re one of the people who we want in this city. You’re somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair.”
So...even though Rudy explicitly saw illegals as "the people who we want in this city," he secretly wanted to deport them?
This latest Rudy immigration fib has ignited another skirmish between Rudy and Mitt Romney, who has relentlessly criticized Rudy's immigration record.
The Romney folks have sent over two more quotes about immigration from Rudy's past which appear at odds with his stated desire to deport all illegals.
There's this, from 1996:
"What we're being asked to do in practicality is to turn names over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service will do nothing with those names but terrorize people."
And there's this, from 1997:
"The Immigration and Naturalization Service isn't going to deport them. I don't think they should."
Dunno, that seems pretty clear cut to us.
Comments (13)
Rob in NY wrote on December 11, 2007 2:17 PM:Wait till they dig up the Mob connection dirt on him.
About time wrote on December 11, 2007 2:20 PM:Rudy is dropping so fast it is not even funny.
It was only a matter of time before
the rest of the country found out what new yorkers have always known.
He is corrupt to the core.
Adulterer
What ever hapened to his Pedophile preist friend.
Michael A wrote on December 11, 2007 2:32 PM:Mr. 9/11 is a scary joke. Don't any of these republicans have a shred of morality? They lie about everything and then play to racism. It really is depressing that people in 21st century america support these 18th century neanderthals who would lie about anything to get elected. The question is will the right-wing media call mr. 9/11 a liar? Nope.
Kefa wrote on December 11, 2007 2:35 PM:He is as crooked as the day is long.
Jeremy wrote on December 11, 2007 2:41 PM:Shhhhhhhh. Let the Reps nominate him.
lestatdelc wrote on December 11, 2007 2:43 PM:The link to the NY Times piece doesn't contain the quote youe give. Where is the orginal NY Times content that actually has the quote about: "you’re one of the people who we want in this city."...?
Edana Cichanowicz wrote on December 11, 2007 3:01 PM:Citation for the first quote:
NY TIMES
"NY Officials Welcome Immigrants, Legal or Illegal" by Deborah Sontag, NY Times 6-10-1994 via ProQuest Historical Newspapers, The NY Times (1851-2004) pg. A-1.
Often, searching via free news archive leads to a particular edition, etc. But the quotation provided is dead-on accurate.
CParis wrote on December 11, 2007 3:29 PM:Methinks Rudy 9/11 is losing his mind. He has to know there is a paper trail, and even though GOP primary voters might be dim, they aren't completely stupid. Watching the GOP circular firing squad - Mittens, Huckster and Gooliani is more fun than ECW smackdown!
dkm wrote on December 11, 2007 4:36 PM:"even though GOP primary voters might be dim, they aren't completely stupid. "
While this may be true for a few of them, don't bet on the majority. My family on my dad's side are GOP to the core (one Christmas card "thanked God daily for giving us a president who would protect us from terrorists") and I can testify that the majority of them truly are stupid. They believe all the talking points that the GOP machine puts out no matter how blatantly and obviously false they are. I would bet substantial sums that if Big Julie were nominated, they would quite happily vote for him even if they would go for Huckleberry in the primaries.
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You just don't get it, do you? He wanted the illegal immigrants to come to NYC so he could get them all deported. It was all a big trap. Rudy is so clever. Clever by half, as they say.
U
"My family on my dad's side are GOP to the core...and I can testify that the majority of them truly are stupid"
dkm - I assume you are adopted!
