He’s a simple pragmatist. You know perfectly well what would have happened if he had said “We need to lock the gates and keep out these foreign hordes who are stealing our jobs and destroying our Western culture.” He provided a reasonable explanation that is going to raise enough outcry as it is.
Read between his lines: what he really said was “Until we get rid of Obozo and turn this economy around, we cannot successfully assimilate more immigrants who are going onto the dole and won’t join the American melting pot.”
I think it was an excellent response.
I disagree a mayor in say Alabama would have never said that. The fact that this Yankee mayor thought his omniscient power to employ educate and assimilate was not up to the task says a lot. Republicans in NH are RINOs all of them, even dinky little mayors.
That mayor could of said there are not enough economic opportunities to support an influx of unskilled workers at this time. It is a shame that a mayor whose prime duty is to keep the street lights on, fill pot holes and make sure the police show up is worried about "providing" jobs. It is ridiculous. I don't need to read between the lines I hear him loud and clear.