We're not sure if he was being completely serious, but Mayor Bloomberg has a bizarre idea for what to do with immigrants.

Per Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet, he suggested "Ask new immigrants to move to Detroit."

Wanna come here? Go to America's most decrepit city and rebuild it.

We can think of a few plusses: It would show a serious desire to be an American if you were willing ot stay in Detroit for awhile. And we're not against rebuilding what could be a great industrial city.

On the other hand, this sounds like a total mess, especially if there were no plan to actually have them do anything once there. Will someone be organizing this rebuilding? Who will fund it? Would it apply to skilled techies as well as unskilled laborers from the south? What justification would there be in discriminating

We're pretty sure the odds of this one happening is 0%.

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