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POLICING PROPOSAL IS INSANE: HIZZONER
By DAVID SEIFMAN

May 19, 2007 -- A section of the new immigration-reform package that forces undocumented workers to return home every two years is an unenforceable "fraud," Mayor Bloomberg contended yesterday.

But the mayor expressed support for other parts of the proposed Senate bill to remake the nation's immigration laws, including a provision that would make it harder for overseas relatives to join families here.

"Nobody in their right mind is going to leave. It's a fraud. It's a feel-good kind of law, but it's not practical," the mayor declared on his weekly WABC radio show.

"That system does not seem to be workable," said immigration lawyer Sarah Thomas Maldonado, of the firm of Jones Garneau in Scarsdale.

"It just seems like it would cause a lot more difficulties and would create a new class of undocumented workers."