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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (10812)	11/19/2001 7:14:24 PM
From: joseph krinsky	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27666

Bloomberg: I Won't Enforce Immigration Laws Monday Nov. 19, 2001; 4:16 p.m. EST New York City Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg said Monday that he would make permanent his predecessor Rudy Giuliani's temporary waiver of U.S. immigration laws for the families of Dominicans who were killed last week on American Airlines Flight 587 -- saying he would extend the waiver to all undocumented aliens in the city. "Whether they're Dominicans or not, those people who are undocumented do not have to worry about city government going to the federal government," Bloomberg told WABC Radio's John Gambling. "We will provide the services, whether they are health care services or education for their children or anything else we can do irregardless of the federal government rightly trying to make sense out of our immigration policy." "That statement you just made, will that apply for the forseeable future?" asked the incredulous host. "Absolutely," Bloomberg responded, without missing a beat. "My job as mayor is to make sure we deliver the city services. It is the federal government's job to make sure we get control of our borders and have an appropriate immigration policy." Asked if his refusal to enforce U.S. immigration laws would make the feds' job even tougher, Bloomberg said, "I think the federal government just has to have a set of fair and enforced laws but my job is to be a city official and to provide the services.... We just have to step back and say, there's two levels here. They can go in parallel." Last week Mayor Giuliani said the city wouldn't seek to deport any Dominicans who were discovered to be in the U.S. illegally as a result of the 587 air disaster, which killed 260 people. The plane carried mostly Dominicans and Dominican-Americans who were traveling back to the Dominican Republic to visit family and friends. Many have expressed concern that if they traveled home for funerals and memorial services, they would not be allowed to re-enter the U.S. newsmax.com _________________________________________ Bloomberg should be arrested, IMO.