Rudy Giuliani Says He Wished He Could Have Deported All Illegal Immigrants

Rudy Giuliani says he wanted to deport all 400,000 illegal immigrants from New York City when he was mayor there, but federal officials’ incompetence made him tailor policy friendly to immigrants.

The GOP presidential candidate, whose primary rivals have been hammering him for weeks for running a “sanctuary city” friendly to illegal immigrants, told FOX News contributor Bill Sammon that he had to accommodate illegal aliens because the feds would only round up to deport 700-1,500 each year.

“If they could [have deported them], I would have have turned all the people over. It would have helped me. I would have had a smaller population. I would have had fewer problems,” Giuliani said in an interview given for Sammon’s upcoming book, “Meet the Next President.”"*

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