zadyma1
21.08.07, 18:56
"Immigration laws don't work if they're ignored. That's the problem with
cities like Newark, San Francisco and New York City that adopt sanctuary
policies," an announcer says in the ad, which runs in New Hampshire and Iowa.
"Sanctuary cities become magnets that encourage illegal immigration and
undermine secure borders."
"Legal immigration is great," Romney says in the new ad. "But illegal
immigration, that we've got to end. And amnesty is not the way to do it."
New York's policy, begun by Democratic Mayor Ed Koch in 1988, is intended to
make illegal immigrants feel that they can report crimes, send their children
to school or seek medical treatment without fear of being reported. An
estimated half-million illegal immigrants live in New York, and only a
fraction are deported each year.
Romney has pledged to cut federal funds from cities that adopt what he calls
sanctuary policies and ignore federal immigration laws. The ads also say that
as governor Romney ordered state police to enforce existing immigration laws,
opposed driver's licenses for illegal immigrants and insisted children be
taught English.
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