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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is, supportive of the city's immigrants: they are 43 percent of its workforce. Mayor Bloomberg, a Republican endorsed Guillermo Linares's unsuccessful State Senate bid in the 2002 Democratic primary. Mr. Linares, 55, with the silver mustache and undulating hairline of an old-time matinee idol and a halting way of genteelly hammering home his point, is a former teacher, city councilman, and lifelong Democrat who was appointed to his position by Mr. Bloomberg in 2004.