On Wednesday, Mayor Bloomberg sat down with Fox 5 Anchor Dari Alexander about his views on the Arizona Immigration law and the immigration reform initiative he is spearheading. WATCH THE VIDEO.

Mike said that The Arizona immigration law “is as much evidence as you ever would need to show that the federal government is walking away from their responsibilities to decide who can come to this country, who can stay in this country, who will help this country grow,”

“The solution to our problems is more immigration. That's been true since the Pilgrims settled here. And will continue to be true even more so in the future as we continue to live in a more global technological world. We have to an immigration law that everybody understands and that is enforced. And the ways to do it is very simple. It is four-pronged: You give permanent status, after the pay fines, learn English, whatever, to the 12 Million. You reduce the demand for labor from illegal immigrants by enforcing the laws that the companies cannot hire undocumented. And you can only do that if you give them the tools, which is a biometric Social Security card, probably nothing else. You make sure that we go and we provide visas for those that we want. And if you do those things, you have a strategy. If you don't do those things, it's not going to work,” he added.

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