Bloomberg misstates Barletta testimony about illegal immigration

The New York Post offers the idiotically-titled "PRO-IMMIG MIKE STICKS IT TO THE STICKS":

MAYOR Bloomberg has come out swing ing against a fellow mayor trying to impose one of the most restrictive bans against illegal aliens in the nation...

..."I testified before Congress and New York's a city of 8.3 million people. The guy who testified after me [Mayor Lou Barletta] came from Hazleton, Pa., which is 30,000 people, and according to him, there has never been a crime committed in Hazleton, Pa., that wasn't committed by an undocumented," said Bloomberg.

However:

"I didn't say that," Barletta said. "He's a little mixed up with my testimony. I was certainly taken aback by his. I testified our city was being destroyed because of it [illegal immigration]. I never said they commit all the crimes. He didn't listen very closely."

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