Giuliani wants to 'regularize' immigrants to improve safety

Another voice saying we should make the immigrants "legal" and it will help all of us and our national security. DP

BY FRAN SPIELMAN, City Hall Reporter

Chicago Sun Times: Turning 11 million illegal immigrants into criminals is not the way to secure the nation's borders or prevent another terrorist attack, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Tuesday.

The way to do that is to "regularize," document, photograph and fingerprint immigrants to drive what Giuliani called "this vast underground" above ground.

Giuliani was the keynote speaker at the second annual Richard J. Daley Urban Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago. With a theme of "Globalizing Cities: Chicago and the World," the forum drew mayors from Miami; Toronto; Mobile, Ala.; Durban, South Africa, and Galway, Ireland.

"The president is right to support a guest-workers program," Giuliani said. "If we recognize it, document it, photograph it and know who and what it is, then we can concentrate our attention on the people who aren't coming in to be guest workers but are coming in to bomb us, or coming in to sell heroin or cocaine or to launder money.

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