A part of his campaign against illegal immigration, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney lashed at cities that tolerate the presence of illegal immigrants. In an interview with CNN early this week, Romney said that immigration laws will not work of they are ignored by the people who are supposed to implement them. He cited cities like Newark, New York and San Francisco as some of the cities that adopt the sanctuary policy and are attracting illegal immigrants from all over the world. Given the fact that the presence of illegal immigrants could affect the whole country, Romney calls for the Federal government to cut back on federal funds that adopts the sanctuary policies.
USAElectionPolls.com has been tracking each of the candidates' poll numbers and continues to observe a troublesome trend for the Republican candidates -- the Unsure voters are as high as 20% in some polls. The web site claims that this is an effort by Romney and his campaign to court the more conservative voter that may be unsure as to whom to support.
Aside from calling on the federal government to cut back on subsidies to cities that adopt the sanctuary policies, Romney also lambasted his major rival, the former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani for supporting illegal immigrants while he was still mayor of New York. According to Romney, Giuliani failed to solve the problems of illegal immigration in this city and even supported the idea of harboring illegal immigrants.
The comments of Romney against Giuliani were vigorously denied by the Giuliani camp. A statement issued by the Giuliani campaign later on outlined the programs implemented by Giuliani to curve illegal immigration in New York while he was still mayor. Giuliani later on hit back at Romney in an interview with CNN saying that Romney did not even hesitate to hire a contractor that employed illegal immigrants to do his landscaping. According to Giuliani, Romney conveniently forgot about his plan of eradicating illegal immigration when he hired those people to work on his yard.
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