“If you come here (to New York City) 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 a fugitive.”
— Then Mayor Rudy Giuliana, 1994
[SOURCE: 2007 GOP debate at UNH, sponsored by Fox News, Sept. 5, 2007]
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“If you come here (to New York City) 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.” Then Mayor Rudy Giuliani, 1994 (PHOTO: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
“Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city (New York 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.”
— Then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, 1994, in interview with The New York Times
[SOURCE: New York Times Archives]
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“In April 2006, Giuliani went on the record as favoring the Senate’s comprehensive immigration plan which includes a path to citizenship and a guest worker plan.”
— New York Times, 2006
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“What I would do with the people that are here, when you had a good system in place — and I believe my plan is the best plan for doing that, and these are the kinds of things I achieved in the other jobs that I’ve had in my life, as mayor and associate attorney general — I think what you would do then is, you would say to the 12 million people that are here, Come forward, get a tamper-proof I.D. card, get fingerprinted, get photographed.
“If they don’t come forward, then you throw them out of the country. The ones who do come forward would have to pay taxes. They’d have to pay fines. If you pay fines, it is not amnesty. They would not get ahead of anybody else. They’d be at the back of the line.
“But then they could eventually become citizens, so long as they could read English, write English and speak English.
[SOURCE: NH Republican primary debate, Jan 5, 2006 (Fox News)]
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“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.”
— GOP Presidential Candidate Rudy Giuliani in 2007 in radio & TV campaign ads
[SOURCE: FactCheck’s AdWatch of 2007 campaign ad, “Fences,” Aug. 20, 2007]
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