“I would argue the federal government should go one step further. They should deliberately force some places that don’t want immigrants to take them, because that’s the only solution for these big, hollowed-out cities where industry has left and is never going to come back unless you get some people to move there.” Michael Bloomberg
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a solution for how ailing U.S. cities can boost economic output: the feds should “deliberately force” them to accept immigrants.
“There’s no reason why you have to have a common immigration policy for all of America,” Bloomberg said Tuesday. “You could let each state do it differently.”
“I would argue the federal government should go one step further. They should deliberately force some places that don’t want immigrants to take them, because that’s the only solution for these big, hollowed-out cities where industry has left and is never going to come back unless you get some people to move there,” he added.
Speaking at a Midtown forum where the topic was a new study titled “Not Coming to America: Why the US is Falling Behind in the Global Race for Talent,” Bloomberg also chastised the Obama administration for deporting more immigrants “than the last four or five presidents put together.”
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