From Mayor Bloomberg of New York, here's the oddest suggestion from a major political figure we're likely to hear this week:
This is a country that was built by immigrants, this is a country that became a superpower by--because of its immigrant population. And unless we continue to have immigrants, we cannot maintain as a superpower.
And I'll give you a good example of how you can fix some of the problems in America. Take a look at the big old industrial cities--Detroit, for example. Got a great mayor in Mayor Bing. But the population has left. You got to do something about that. And if I were the federal government, assuming you could wave a magic wand and pull everybody together, you 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. You would populate Detroit overnight because half the world wants to come here.
Everybody come here, but you can't leave Detroit! That should work out so well, just like keeping the Indians on reservations did. Would they have citizenship papers with asterisks? Maybe we could put stars on their foreheads or something.
From one of the commenters at the linked site: "Imagine if Donald Trump or Sarah Palin had said it....
Blooomberg = Trump after Finishing School."
