Romney: Giuliani's NYC 'Sanctuary' for Illegal Immigrants

Giuliani's strong showing in the polls so far are based on a myth. The former Mayor is trying to build a campaign on a hoax. He ran NYC as a liberal now he wants to reinvent himself as a Conservative. Romney, who is not exactly alien to reinvention, is exposing this charade. In the process he is destroying the only announced candidate that stands in the way of the former Governor from winning the Republican nomination. Although Romney is 3rd or 4th in the national polls he is ahead in Iowa. And this Saturday his straw poll victory in that state will solidify that lead. Giuliani isn't even competing:

In one of the strongest conflicts yet between Republican presidential front-runners, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney attacked rival Rudy Giuliani Wednesday, implying that Giuliani supported illegal immigration when he was mayor of New York.

"If you look at lists compiled on Web sites of sanctuary cities, New York is at the top of the list when Mayor Giuliani was mayor," Romney said at the Abbey Hotel here. "He instructed city workers not to provide information to the federal government that would allow them to enforce the law. New York City was the poster child for sanctuary cities in the country."

How do you explain away these comments, Rudolph?:

Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens," Giuliani said at the time. "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, which is really unfair."

[...]"There are times when undocumented immigrants must have a substantial degree of protection," Giuliani said.