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...
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“Is there any doubt the traitors are now in charge?”
What do you mean “now”? They’ve been in charge for quite some time.
Were it in my power to force ideologues like Bloomberg and half the politicians and judges in this country to live in the neighborhoods they’re turning into third world hellholes. Being politicians, they of course benefit from it. God, how sick to bleeding gum’s death I am of the modern American political class.
I don’t know whether to call him an idiot, imbecile or moron, but his is either very stupid, an unmitigated liar, uninformed, corrupt or a combination of those.
“Bloomberg .... assembl[ed] a coalition of 500 U.S. mayors who banded together in a campaign against illegal guns.”
Come and get `em, you and your president, you fat tub of RINO guts.
If we had more citizens like you, this country would be a much better place.
You moron...yeah that's who is jumping over our southern fence in the dead of night..the best and the brightest who we want to keep out...geez the stupidity...
Thank you for the kind words.
I was just doing what I understood to be necessary to preserve this republic.
What the hell kind of "immigration reform" does he think we are going to get from Pelosi/Reid/Obama? I called his office and they said he was really against amnesty. If the Dems take up his dare and try to push immigration this yesr, I hope he has his head on straight.
Yeah, lets import another uneducated, underclass to boost our economy.
Go screw yourself Bloomey.
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Amen.
Ditto.
EffinA.
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