If that's the way the Mayor feels , Then He should resign as Mayor of NYC . Being the fact that he swindled the appropriate parties into getting that legislation passed allowing him to repeat as Mayor . Without a fair , Unbiased Election process . Until that happens , Fuck Bloomberg !

Your mother was not native maybe black. I love how you idiots are of a sudden classified yourself as native when immigration issue is brought up. LMFAO

Gloomberg is the wrong person to make a comment.

He plays into the agenda perfectly.

a billionaire who has lost touch with the reality of the average american citizen who doesnt have servants and limos.

People standing up for themselves in south america usually means a revolution, so if they stay in their countries and stand up for themselves its usally a civil war, coup or mass uprising that is bloody, changes nothing or quickly squashed.

our own revolution wasnt as pretty as the textbooks make it, and theres the inconvenient facts that the country was found for and by slaveowners.

bloomberg is the wrong person to speak, a klepotract aristrocat autocrat who benefits from the divisions of the real working class, exploitation of resources uncluding human capital.

wars keep people rich, no matter how you word it, someone will always make money on the coffins or bullets or bombs, in south and central america all the decades of uprisings and war, everything stays the same for the average poor person. the trick is coming to america to liveon a bunk bed and send most of your money home is a dream. you cant live on that here except if your an immigrant and theres plenty more people back home in the village who can live on your meager wages.

the real enemy is the rich and the system created to keep them rich, us poor and perpetuate the entire farce.

Why is no one speaking about the very real issues of human trafficking? Many of the "illegal immigrants" are in fact people who were tricked and then forced to work, for minuscule or even no wages. Women and children are forced into prostitution or (if they're lucky) into involuntary servitude-better known as slavery. And the issue of narco-trafficking and the accompanying violence is also glossed over by politicians attempting to paint this as a civil rights issue. Many economic immigrants are coerced into acting as drug mules by coyotes (the term used in Mexico for human smugglers) as a condition of being brought into the US.

The US has opted to maintain a permanent underclass to sustain our economy so I really shouldn't be surprised.

The illegal aliens living in the USA are working class people.

The teabaggers and anti-migration screamers are working class people.

Bloomberg and other corporate figures (and the politicians on both sides of the fray who serve at their pleasure) are not working class people.

In fact, the only ones who benefit from this division of the various working classes are the barons of capital and the neo-aristocracy (like Bloomberg and his various shills).

When will the working class wake up and realize who the real enemy is?

again with the quinn thing.

HEY FELIX:

btw, a PETOPIA is opening on the bottom-level space on my e. 14th street apartment building!!!! i'm psyched!!@@@!@!@!

I am so happy our local officials are dealing with Arizona's issues since they resolve all of NYC's problems (homelessness, affordable housing, jobs, corruptions, slush funds, Christine Quinn's slush funds etc)

Just a few questions for everyone:

1) What can't immigrants come over here legally? There are plenty of ways to do this without being a burden on legal taxpayers.

2) Why can't immigrants stand up for themselves in their own country to make it better so there's no need to come here?

3) How would you feel if you invited a few friends over to your apartment, thinking about 20 would show up, and then over 200 people showed up, and you knew only 15 of them? Would you be gracious to every single one of them, or would you throw your non-friends out?

Great questions! Let me take a stab at them...

1. Statistically, legal US citizenship is nearly impossible (especially from Mexico). It takes years, money, and a long wait list. This is also a burden on legal taxpayers (though not at the same scale as illegal residents.) Plenty of people come over here legally, but not as citizens with Visas. This grants them some rights, but not all of the ones that we enjoy as US Citizens. They also have to leave the country at some point.

2. We are lucky in the US to have freedom and democracy. It required a revolution. There are revolutions in many countries, often at the cost of its citizens' freedom. They have to ask themselves if "standing up for themselves" is worth the risk to their lives, their families' lives and whether or not it would actually be effective. (Poverty in these types of countries is rampant and does a great job of discouraging revolutions.)

3. Since my house can hold far more than 200 people (more like 200,000 if we use the right ratio!) and a lot of these uninvited guests have been here for decades, I would probably not kick them out. Especially if their only offense was showing up uninvited to my awesome party!

Nice answers and nice house. I have no problem with uninvited guests that don't cause problems (as long as they also count themselves so that we have enough drinks to go around), but the ones that cause problems or are there to contribute nothing but take everything must go.

Uh, America isn't a house party. Might as well say how about if you were trying to build a barn & you expected 15 people & 200 showed up. Or you were trying to run a lemonade stand or...whatever?

You're right, America is not a house party, but then again, there are 2 other questions posted. Why can't they come here legally? What's so wrong with that? Plus, why can't they make their own countries better, thereby making their own lives better without having to move so far away from their families?

I'm just asking these questions. I really have no defined stance on the matter because I enjoy the oodles of ethnicities that make up our country. I know that my ancestors on my father's side were from Scotland, while my mother's side seem to have been native.

Also, building a barn requires Amish people. What's that got to do with anything? :)

It'll be struck down by the courts. Arizona is just following Texas's path of fake legislative action for the sake of someone's political gain, that gets altered by the courts which do the real legislating. This thing is a poison pill that keeps the checks comin' over at Republican Shitbag Headquarters.

This is 100% correct and one of the few comments that makes any sense on this article. Every court ruling, notably INS v. Chadha, notes that immigration is a national issue to be governed by the feds for unanimity.

This law is a joke to pander to that particular political movement (of inbred know-nothings) that gets all riled up about issues that they invent (guns, illegal immigration, "high" taxes, "big" govt., etc).

Bloomberg is obviously clueless about the illegal alien problem in AZ which is a lot worse than what NYC is suffering now. Arizona IS getting real about illegal immigration, hence their tougher laws. I applaud them for standing up against a dysfunctional federal govt that refuses to do its job and enact its own laws. I plan on patronizing several Arizona-based businesses to show my support.

Bloomberg should get real and STFU.

My friend Oscar Vasquez is a US college-educated engineer and was deported because he can't legally work here. Article here. (Warning, it's a little too emotive for me, but it's a personal profile so there you go.)

We are quickly forfeiting our status as a world power for this very reason. Bloomberg gets it.

NO ONE CARES

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

This is what we in the business call a backhanded compliment: you cared enough to post a response ipso facto you engaged & care. The ALL CAPS tastes extra sweet!

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