GIULIANI ON SANCTUARY CITIES:

RHETORIC:

Giuliani Denied The Fact That New York Was A Sanctuary City. "That was a very good question and the reality is that New York City was not a sanctuary city. No single illegal immigrant that new York city could find that either committed a crime or was suspected of a crime that was in the executive order originally done by ed Koch." (CNN/YouTube, [Unverified Transcript], Republican Presidential Candidate Debate, St. Petersburg, FL, 11/28/07)

REALITY:

Mayor Giuliani Promoted New York As A Sanctuary City:

The New York Times Headline, 1994: "New York Officials Welcome Immigrants, Legal Or Illegal"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDD133AF933A25755C0A962958260

As Mayor, Giuliani Actually Invited More Illegal Immigrants To Come To New York City. "Mr. Giuliani said, '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.'" (Deborah Sontag, "New York Officials Welcome Immigrants, Legal Or Illegal," The New York Times, 6/10/94)

ABC News: "If Giuliani Inherited The [Koch] Policy, He Reissued It And Seemed To Embrace It." "New York became a sanctuary city, where illegal immigrants enjoy some measure of protection, through an executive order signed by Mayor Ed Koch in 1989, five years before Giuliani became mayor in January 1994. But if Giuliani inherited the policy, he reissued it and seemed to embrace it." (Jake Tapper and Ron Claiborne, "Romney: Giuliani's NYC 'Sanctuary' For Illegal Immigrants," ABC News, 8/8/07)

Giuliani: "New York City Will Create A Zone Of Protection For Illegal And Undocumented Immigrants." MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI: "I'm very pleased to have the opportunity to discuss the Welfare Act that was recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton. … There are aspects to the Welfare Reform Bill that, as just a matter of policy, I disagree with and I think could pose very serious problems, and although I do think the bill does some good, in the end I believe it does more harm than good. … But there is one aspect of the bill that has immediate application, and one that I believe raises serious constitutional and legal questions. And it is part of the Bill people pay very little attention to, and I'm not certain many knew it was in the bill when they passed it. It's a provision that attempts to reverse an executive order that New York City has had in existence since 1988 which basically says that New York City will create a zone of protection for illegal and undocumented immigrants who are seeking the protection of the police or seeking medical services because they are sick or attempting to or actually putting their children in public schools so they can be educated. New York City's Executive Order 124, signed by Mayor Koch in 1988 protected people in that endeavor by instructing employees of New York City that they are not to turn in those names into the Immigration and Naturalization Service." (Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Speech On The Welfare Act, 9/11/96; New York City Website, www.nyc.gov, Accessed 8/8/07)