Fox News - Detroit needs residents. Immigrants want to live in America. Michael Bloomberg says he's got a simple solution for both needs -- send all new immigrants to Detroit. In a novel approach to immigration reform, the New York City mayor said Sunday that if he could have his way, he'd use the immigrant workforce to jump-start the Motor City's economy by requiring Detroit residency. "The population has left. You've got to do something about that," Bloomberg said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "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 agreed 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," he said.
Though I respect what Bloomberg's trying to do here, I think his views on immigration are set a bit in the past. America is no longer the land of Gold paved roads for immigrants. People coming here today have to be seriously concerned about their financial well being should the liquor store/convenience store/phone card selling market, they choose to open offering native foods fail, our government just can't offer the same level of welfare it has in the past. The immigrants today may need to do previously unheard of things, such as, get a real job instead of staying at home and multiplying at rapid paces.
I do agree with his choice of location though, I'm fairly certain Eastern European immigrants coming from long bombed out home towns would feel comfy and right at home in Detroit (above).
