Michigan lost much of its population during the recession, the governor is trying to get more people to move in. - - Donna Poisl
By Chris Christoff
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Michigan Governor Rick Snyder calls himself the most pro-immigration governor in the country, and he’s out to prove it.
Other Republican governors in Arizona, Alabama and South Carolina are embroiled in political tumult over their efforts to weed out illegal immigrants. Snyder assigned agencies to woo educated immigrants to the only state that lost population in the 2010 U.S. census. He’s called well-educated, skilled foreigners crucial to building Michigan’s economy.
“I view it as education, to explain the facts to people,” Snyder said in an interview at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit yesterday. “They’re not taking jobs, they’re creating jobs.”
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