Bloomberg Criticizes Guest Worker Plan
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Mayor Bloomberg yesterday criticized parts of immigration legislation before Congress, calling a provision to allow temporary workers from other nations into America “a joke.”
Mr. Bloomberg said it’s unlikely that the workers, who would be issued two-year visas and number as many as 600,000, would ever go home.
The mayor praised the parts of the legislation that give immigrants a path to citizenship. He also urged lawmakers to devise a biometric Social Security card to verify whether people are eligible to work in America.
“We have 12 million people here, and we are not going to deport them,” the mayor said. “We don’t have an army big enough to deport them. It would destroy our economy if you deported them.”
