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Rudy Giuliani: Build Fence, Secure U.S. Borders
President Bush and Congress should now focus their efforts on securing the U.S.-Mexico border, leaving other related aspects of the immigration issue until later, Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday. After the collapse of a multipronged U.S. Senate bill on immigration, "I hope President Bush puts his energy now into building the fence, building a technological fence, increasing the size of the Border Patrol and creating order at the border, which is all that anyone's asking for," Giuliani said. "In trying to solve everything at once, they were solving nothing," the former New York City mayor added. "Maybe the lesson that should come out of that is the effort should now be put on securing the border. Let's get that done and then let's see how do we rationally solve the rest of the problems that remain." Securing the border, Giuliani told reporters after a visit to a Costco store while in Phoenix for an evening fundraiser, would be "a first step and the most important step in trying to figure out how to rationally solve all of these problems but they can't be solved until you secure the border."
Story Continues Below Asked about a new Arizona law that will require suspension or revocation of business licenses of employers which hire knowingly illegal immigrants, Giuliani said it appeared to be a response by the state to the federal government's failure to address the issue. "Arizona has to deal with this the way they want to," he said.
© 2007 Associated Press.
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