It probably doesn't matter anymore for this campaign season, but just to show that what candidates say isn't necessarily what they mean - Immigration Prof Blog found this in the Village Voice.
Giuliani ...helped craft the Gipper's first-ever amnesty bill, which was passed in 1986 and ultimately legalized three million undocumented immigrants, mostly Mexicans...
Giuliani testified at a 1982 federal trial in Florida over INS detention policies that he was "the singular individual" responsible for immigration issues at the Department of Justice and that he'd been deeply involved in drafting Reagan's immigration policy.
The question is, will voters remember this if he decides to run for office again?
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Giuliani's Immigration Problem
Much as he hates to admit it, Rudy loved (most of) those huddled masses
by Wayne Barrett
January 15th, 2008 7:01 PM
...[what] Giuliani didn't say was that, as the Justice Department official who oversaw the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and as a member of a 1981 White House working group on immigration, he helped craft the Gipper's first-ever amnesty bill, which was passed in 1986 and ultimately legalized three million undocumented immigrants, mostly Mexicans. It's that law—echoed in many ways by the 2006 bill that Giuliani opposed—that is widely seen as having spurred millions more to come to America in anticipation of future amnesties. Giuliani testified at a 1982 federal trial in Florida over INS detention policies that he was "the singular individual" responsible for immigration issues at the Department of Justice, and that he'd been deeply involved in drafting Reagan's immigration policy. Giuliani said that it "felt like" he was spending 100 percent of his time on immigration issues. A 1983 New York Times story reported that Giuliani "was active in promoting the administration's immigration bill last year, which sought to grant amnesty to illegal aliens..."
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