De Blasio Confirms Interview With Manhattan Prosecutors

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32. You'd be very wrong about that

Not only Bloomberg, but Rudy also favored NY being a sanctuary city.

“The NYPD leaves immigration enforcement to the federal government, and there are really strong public health and safety reasons for doing so,” said Donna Lieberman, head of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Asking cops to turn in or hold people who may be here illegally makes immigrants less likely to report crimes or fires, she said.

As mayor, Rudy Giuliani was a staunch defender of the policy, she noted, as was Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

New York has one of the most immigrant-protective policies of the dozens of sanctuary cities in the country — although not as extreme as in San Francisco, where last year local cops refused to turn over an undocumented migrant the feds had asked for.

http://nypost.com/2016/11/19/new-york-to-remain-a-sanctuary-city-for-immigrants-de-blasio/