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NY Mayor Bloomberg to promote immigration reform
Reuters ^ | Jan 1, 2010 | Daniel Trotta

Posted on 01/01/2010 2:46:41 PM PST by neverdem

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged on Friday to promote a more open U.S. immigration policy during his third term, much as he made a campaign against illegal guns a hallmark of his second term.

"With leaders from across the country, we will assemble a bipartisan coalition to support President Obama's call for comprehensive immigration reform that honors our history, upholds our values, and promotes our economy," Bloomberg said upon being sworn in for his third term as mayor.

The White House has said it will aim for immigration reform in 2010, possibly including a path to citizenship for the 12 million immigrants who live in the country illegally.

Bloomberg, who considered running for president in 2008 as a political independent, raised his national profile by assembling a coalition of 500 U.S. mayors who banded together in a campaign against illegal guns.

On the hot-button issue of immigration, he favors more liberal laws on allowing immigrants into the country and legalizing those who lack documentation. That will draw opposition from advocates of tightening the border and deportation of illegal aliens.

"We're committing what I call national suicide," Bloomberg said on the NBC's "Meet the Press" last Sunday. "Somehow or other, after 9/11 we went from reaching out and trying to get the best and the brightest to come here, to trying to keep them out...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; illegalaliens; illegals; immigrationreform; nycmayor
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With all of the unemployed, he's nuts.
1 posted on 01/01/2010 2:46:41 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Up yours, Bloombooger.


2 posted on 01/01/2010 2:48:55 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: neverdem

I think he’s actually right about welcoming the best and brightest.

But unfortunately he’s in support of going in the other direction—and welcoming the law-breaking and uneducated who are here or would like to come.


3 posted on 01/01/2010 2:49:33 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: neverdem

Is there any doubt the traitors are now in charge?


4 posted on 01/01/2010 2:49:33 PM PST by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: neverdem

Hey illegals

GO TO NYC


5 posted on 01/01/2010 2:50:42 PM PST by silverleaf (More folks were invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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To: neverdem
With all of the unemployed, he's nuts.

He's still stark raving mad, even without them...


6 posted on 01/01/2010 2:51:11 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: neverdem

It’s already a sanctuary city and now he wants to be sure that the honest citizens are disarmed.

No wonder he just loves Obamao.


7 posted on 01/01/2010 2:51:18 PM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: neverdem

He’s super rich, he’s a RINO and a ultra-liberal doofus that lives in his own insulated bubble, where he personally doesn’t have to worry about crime (body guards), where his next meal will come from or retirement (he’s a billionaire) and probably has several homes around the world so he can pick up and take off any time he pleases. As for the rest of his constituents, too bad. All he cares about is the power of the office and in order to stay there he has to have the immigrant reform in place so they can get handouts from him or any others like him. NYC will head south again with this fool as mayor.


8 posted on 01/01/2010 2:51:33 PM PST by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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To: neverdem
We're committing what I call national suicide,” Bloomberg said”

Yes.
By leaving our borders open for any Al Quaeda terrorist to walk in anytime he wants.

9 posted on 01/01/2010 2:51:56 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: neverdem

Bloomie, these aren’t the “best and the brightest”.

They are poor and dumb, and they are a drain on our system.

No fence, no 287g, no enforcement of laws, all the while Dems like you, Bloomie, are trying to make us serfs.

FU and the horse you rode in on.

I want my country back, so get outta my way!


10 posted on 01/01/2010 2:54:12 PM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: neverdem

they can’t pull off what they really want unless they get the votes of endless waves of illegals,it all fits into the grand scheme of things. Of course most illegals will vote in 2010,but they will be legal by 2012


11 posted on 01/01/2010 3:03:12 PM PST by coalman (survived carter ,disco and clinton,just holding on till 2012)
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To: neverdem

DADDY BLOOMBERG — a DANGEROUS man.

This is the type of person we should be concerned about, not Rudy nor the person in the “Romney Truth File.”


12 posted on 01/01/2010 3:07:27 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: neverdem

Last time the employment situation was much better and some of the more liberals senators voted against amnesty. Gonna be a tall order to fill getting them to go for it this time.


13 posted on 01/01/2010 3:08:23 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: neverdem

Reform. Yes, we need more leechphucks. Drop the gates and admit anyone.


14 posted on 01/01/2010 3:11:43 PM PST by TheUndead (...it's all downhill from here.)
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To: neverdem

Great, Bloomy wants to bring back the glory days of David Dinkins and Abe Beame. The city was a real garden spot back then.


15 posted on 01/01/2010 3:12:35 PM PST by YankeeReb (Pray for 0bama Psalm 109:8 ; May his days be short. May another take his office.)
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To: neverdem

NYC relies on a permanent underclass of under-the-table illegals to prop up their otherwise untenable standard of living.


16 posted on 01/01/2010 3:13:00 PM PST by poindexter
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To: neverdem

We are not importing the “best and brightest”, Bloomie! We are importing more potential socialist democrats and that seems to be exactly what you want!


17 posted on 01/01/2010 3:15:27 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: neverdem
Bloomberg - Democrat-Republican-Independent-Republican-Whatever advances Bloomberg cares as much about America as the man in the Moon.

This guy is a self-serving, arrogant elitist whose only purpose is to find some meaning in a life whose only meaning was to get rich.

Like Obama, this fraud wants as many illegals as possible made into citizens so he can pander them for the votes whose meaning they really can't understand.

I hope he is as successful in his quest to devalue American citizenship in his third term as he was in his ego-maniacal attempt to destroy the Second Amendment in his earlier terms.

“Campaign Finance Reform” as engineered by that great American (sarcasm) and his Democrat allies has done NOTHING except limit the ranks of potential candidates for higher office to vacuous narcissistic idiots like this man. People with vast wealth, no sense or knowledge of America and the Enlightenment which produced it, and goal but inflating their already monumental egos.

18 posted on 01/01/2010 3:15:49 PM PST by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: neverdem
Bloomberg - Democrat-Republican-Independent-Republican-Whatever advances Bloomberg cares as much about America as the man in the Moon.

This guy is a self-serving, arrogant elitist whose only purpose is to find some meaning in a life whose only meaning was to get rich.

Like Obama, this fraud wants as many illegals as possible made into citizens so he can pander them for the votes whose meaning they really can't understand.

I hope he is as successful in his quest to devalue American citizenship in his third term as he was in his ego-maniacal attempt to destroy the Second Amendment in his earlier terms.

“Campaign Finance Reform” as engineered by that great American John McCain(sarcasm) and his Democrat allies has done NOTHING except limit the ranks of potential candidates for higher office to vacuous narcissistic idiots like this man. People with vast wealth, no sense or knowledge of America and the Enlightenment which produced it, and goal but inflating their already monumental egos.

19 posted on 01/01/2010 3:16:16 PM PST by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: neverdem

Thanks to the quiche and booger-eating Park Avenue morons who voted for this azzhole.

Here’s a story they might someday LIVE. I hope so.

My wife and I recently watched “Waitress,” a clever and sweet little film written and directed by Adrienne Shelly. Shelly was A VERY talented lady who also played a supporting role.

She was senselessly MURDERED in her NY apartment on November 1, 2006. Her body was found hanging by a sheet from a shower rod – by her husband. She was 40 and left behind a 3 year-old daughter who will never know her real mother.

A 19 YEAR OLD ECUADORIAN — AN ILLEGAL WHO SHOULD NEVER HAVE EVEN BEEN IN THE COUNTRY IN THE FIRST PLACE (THANK YOU CLINTON AND BUSH) — CONFESSED TO HER MURDER.

They are killing 25 of us every day.

IT WILL STOP WHEN THE MORONS IN WASHINGTON GET AS SERIOUS ABOUT THE ILLEGAL INVASION AS THEY ARE ABOUT HARASSING NATIVE BORN CITIZENS AT THE AIRPORTS.

(AND, YES, I INTENDED TO SHOUT BECAUSE I’M MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS CRAP!)

How about you???

Do you suppose this madness might have ended years ago if one of Bush’s daughters or McCain’s kids had been a victim of one of the millions of illegals they’ve allowed in here to kill the rest of us? Obama has promised to turn the borders into one-way turnstiles marked “ENTER” while HIS girls will be safe at Sidwell Friends.

Of course, any illegal attempting to do so would most likely be taken out by a well armed SS detail.

I’ve been a regular at local congressional town hall meetings for a few dozen years and noted that starting around 10 years ago, the majority of those there were angry that nothing was being done about the illegal invasion.

Why are we still waiting for the clowns in Malfunction Junction – who can produce convoluted legislative proposals to line their pockets or deliver pork back home and ram it through in the dark of night – to secure our national borders?

Perhaps YOU should get on over to those congressional town hall meetings and raise some serious hell – before YOU die at the hands of someone who ought not even BE HERE!

We have enough indigenous criminals. WE SURE AS HELL DON’T NEED TO IMPORT MORE.
And if there ARE WMD here now, intelligence sources I trust have it that they came through that sieve-like border with Mexico, having been brought in by radical Muslims disguised as migrant workers seeking jobs. Someone will need to answer for that if a few American cities vanish or are rendered uninhabitable by some disease or toxin.

My and my wife’s great-great-grandparents came her to places like Ellis Island where they were questioned, deloused and given instructions to learn or become more proficient in ENGLISH and told that to become citizens, they would have to learn some American history and government then take and pass a test. THEY proudly walked through the FRONT door.

My patience is exhausted with those politicians and others who hold that those who CREPT through the BACK DOOR should be allowed to remain here let alone be granted citizenship by legislative fiat. It begs the question, how must those who, like OUR ancestors, did it the RIGHT WAY feel as they wait in line – often for YEARS – to come through the front door. Pretty foolish, don’t you think.

PS: While on jury duty a while back, one of my fellow jurors told me that her nephew was killed a year earlier by two illegals DRIVING their truck with FAULTY BRAKES to the BRAKE SHOP to be repaired when – surprise, surprise — the BRAKES FAILED AND THEY KILLED HER NEPHEW. I guess these MORONS thought they were back in Mexico where – in addition to driving DRUNK — they and their idiot friends do crap like that all the time. Can you say “Tijuana Taxi?” Can you say “TOW TRUCK?”

The driver got 4 years in prison and will be deported when he gets out.

Gotta wonder how long it will take him to sneak back in and kill someone else?


20 posted on 01/01/2010 3:17:32 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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