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Bloomberg: US Should Make All New Immigrants Live in Detroit

Fox News 05/01/2011 19:05
Bloomberg: US Should Make All New Immigrants Live in Detroit - USA - politics - Michael Bloomberg - Detroit - Michigan


Detroit needs residents. Immigrants want to live in America. Michael Bloomberg says he's got a simple solution for both needs -- send all new immigrants to Detroit.



In a novel approach to immigration reform, the New York City mayor said Sunday that if he could have his way, he'd use the immigrant workforce to jump-start the Motor City's economy by requiring Detroit residency. 

"The population has left. You've got to do something about that," Bloomberg said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "And if I were the federal government, assuming you could wave a magic wand and pull everybody together, you pass a law letting immigrants come in as long as they agreed to go to Detroit and live there for five or 10 years. Start businesses, take jobs, whatever. 


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