Mayor Bloomberg: “Send Illegals to Detroit”
New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, offered a startling fix
to the vexing problems associated with illegal immigration and Rust Belt
Stagnation—send immigrants to struggling metropolises such as Detroit.
The remarks by the Billionaire Mayor have sparked debate
throughout the country. Bloomberg claims, that by steering illegal workers to
struggling cities, the individuals would ultimately revitalize damaged
economies while posing no threat to those looking for work in stagnant or
booming markets.
Bloomberg stated on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, the following
cure-all to our nation’s illegal immigration problem, “I’ll give you a good
example of how you can fix some of the problems in America. Take a good look at
the big old industrial cities, like Detroit. The population has left. You got
to do something about that. And I were the federal government I would pass a
law letting immigrants come in as long as they agree to go to Detroit and live
there for five or 10 years, start businesses, take jobs, whatever.”
Detroit, the once car manufacturing capital of the world,
has experienced a 25 percent decrease in population over the past decade.
Additionally, the Motor City is home to nearly 90,000 vacant housing units and
a staggering unemployment rate.
Although the comments sound harsh, many economists agree
that Bloomberg’s radical and alternative proposal would populate Detroit
overnight and offer momentum to help revitalize the proud city.
On the surface these comments seem somewhat hateful or
demeaning; however, the Mayor went onto affirm America’s need for immigrants.
In the same interview, Bloomberg said, “This was a country built by immigrants
and unless we continue to have immigrants, we cannot maintain as a superpower.”
