How about just enforcing the laws that now exist? How about all of these elites do their jobs like there are supposed to do?
The immigration law that was supposed to be governing the admission of foreign nationals intent upon becoming citizens was put in place largely at the behest of Ted Kennedy, back in 1965.
One provision was the elimination of national “quotas” from countries with citizens who have historically emigrated to the US. Since this heavily favored Northern European countries, most of the rest of the world was severely limited, but with the “quotas” removed, people from anywhere in the world could be admitted on a legal basis. There was also another provision made for families of naturalized citizens to get preference in the granting of visas, leading to chain immigrations.
This action was followed with broadening the definition of who was a “political refugee”, and by seeking amnesty for those who by extralegal means, had managed to gain entry to this country without the usual application for visa of any kind. These two further provisions vastly overburdened our system, largely destroying its orderly application and making a mess of things, by losing track so easily of those who did come here legally, and by making no effort to try to locate those who may have been residing here without prior authority.
And now the system is just runaway, with little or no consistent enforcement, and an impossible task of policing the border by depriving the Border Patrol of serious support in application of the law.
Thank you, Ted Kennedy, wherever you are. At the time it was put into place, this was probably the greatest legacy by any Democrat since the New Deal. They have gone head and shoulders above that since then, with the establishment of the “Great Society” under LBJ, and the empowerment of the Islamic jihadists under Carter.