And this idiot thinks he's going to run for the next election as an Independent.
ANQ




BLOOMY BLASTS IMMIGRATION CRITICS IN CHINA SPEECH
By DAVID SEIFMAN City Hall Bureau Chief

December 13, 2007 -- Anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States is imposing "staggering damage" to the entire nation, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday in China.

"We live in a much more international world," the mayor said following a speech at Fudan University in Shanghai.

"The xenophobia that unfortunately seems to be gripping parts of America is really very dangerous. One of the things you realize is how dependent we are on each other."

His comments in China were the strongest he's ever delivered in defense of immigration.

"Immigrants built our city and country," the mayor said.

"Consider this: Half of the Americans who won Nobel Prizes in physics in the past seven years were born abroad. More than half the people with Ph.D.s working in America are immigrants . . . In fact, a quarter of all Silicon Valley companies were started by entrepreneurs from just two countries: China and India."

Mayoral aides said Bloomberg's comments were spurred by a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment in some towns, cities and states and weren't intended as political commentary.

david.seifman@nypost.com
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