UPI: Bloomberg: Illegal immigrants help golfers

[DeepModem Mom]

Bloomberg: Illegal immigrants help golfers

NEW YORK, April 1 (UPI) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says golf fairways would suffer if illegal immigrants were returned to their native country.

"You and I are beneficiaries of these jobs," Bloomberg told his WABC-AM radio co-host, John Gambling. "You and I both play golf; who takes care of the greens and the fairways in your golf course?"

However, Robert Heaney, general manager of Deepdale Golf Club -- a Long Island course where Bloomberg often plays -- told The New York Daily News that no illegal immigrants work at the club....

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The mayor also said 25 percent of undocumented immigrants are farm workers and many are home healthcare workers.

"Nobody wants to deport them, in the end, because people need them to take these jobs and do the things that nobody else is doing," Bloomberg said....

http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060401-072918-8542r

[babylonsister]

1. Oh, my stars, no! Not the golf courses!

Suffer, for these stellar people? :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :nopity:

[DRoseDARs]

2. Maybe in his way he's trying to pull on the heart strings of the elites nt

:shrug:

[laheina]

3. Or at least,

to appeal to them in a way that they can understand.

I can't help but think that he is poking a little bit of fun at them, though. ;)

[babylonsister]

4. I actually agree, but now who is real and/or 'fake'? nt

[Zorra]

5. Uh....not even an illegal immigrant would take the demeaning job

holding George W. Bu*h's bag and putter.

[951-Riverside]

6. Thats what Jeff Gannon & Condi is for ;) n/t