Mr. Mayor, please tell us in California that you didn’t mean to say what you said.
I don’t really watch Glenn Beck very often, but Rudy Giuliani was on today and said that it should NOT be a crime to be here in this country illegally.
Read the full transcript for yourself: http://www.glennbeck.com/news/09072007.shtml
My favorite part is below:
GLENN: Should it be [a crime]?
GIULIANI: Should it be? No, it shouldn’t be because the government wouldn’t be able to prosecute it. We couldn’t prosecute 12 million people. We have only 2 million people in jail right now for all the crimes that are committed in the country, 2.5 million. If you were to make it a crime, you would have to take the resources of the criminal justice system and increase it by about 6. In other words, you’d have to take all the 800,000 police, and who knows how many police we would have to have.
Mr. Mayor, if it is not a serious Federal offense to be here illegally, how about each of the 50 states makes it a serious crime? And then the (G-d forbid) Giuliani Administration just reimburses us for the cost of enforcing these new laws?
September 7th, 2007 at 12:00 am
There’s no ambiguity if you read what he actually said: deport illegal immigrants immediately, rather than spend millions holding them in prison and holding lengthy jury trials.
So Rudy’s for saving millions of dollars while achieving the same result that a trial would achieve: deporting illegal immigrants back to their legal homeland.
Sounds like the right approach to me.
September 7th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Oh he said it all right.
There’s the front runner everyone is falling all over themselves to support like he’s the second coming.
Shouldn’t be a crime…
September 10th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I’m confused:
GLENN: Right. But isn’t illegal immigration a crime in and of itself?
GIULIANI: No.
GLENN: Aren’t you saying —
GIULIANI: Glenn —
GLENN: You’re protecting criminals by saying that being treated as a criminal is unfair.
GIULIANI: Glenn, it’s not a crime. I know that’s very hard for people to understand, but it’s not a federal crime.
GLENN: It’s a misdemeanor but if you’ve been nailed, it is a crime. If you’ve been nailed, ship back and come back, it is a crime.
But then he follows up with a pollster driven solution by referencing the border fence.
But if the original statements were that it is not a crime then why would you promote a fence for a non-crime? Either the premise is wrong or the solution would not apply.