“We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.”

American politician and lawyer

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and disbarred lawyer, born in 1944. He served as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001, after earlier posts as U.S. Associate Attorney General and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He is widely known for his crime-focused mayoralty and his role in New York's response after the September 11 attacks. Before becoming mayor, Giuliani led federal prosecutions of New York City mafia bosses in the 1980s. He later won election to City Hall after an unsuccessful 1989 run, then was reelected in 1997. In 2000, he entered the race for a U.S. Senate seat from New York, but withdrew after a prostate cancer diagnosis. Following the attacks in 2001, he was called