You just described policy as it was before Ted and Co. screwed it up in 1965. Every other country's standards are similar to our pre-'65 guidelines. Good thing we're not at war or anything like that.
I've been reading the other threads; you made some excellent points today. I marveled at how those "advocates" bloviated about punishing the president who allowed so many of their illegal clients to invade without fear of deportation.
Yet there is an irony --- Silvestre Reyes only made it to Congress, elected from a very heavily hispanic region because he was seen as someone strong on controlling the border. He appeared then to be someone unafraid of the Mexican government which condemned him strongly for Operation Blockade and Operation Hold-the-Line. The hispanics on the USA side admired him very much for that --- there isn't really any evidence that Americans of Spanish descent want open borders with Mexico --- in fact I think it's more the opposite. Other than the Aztlan types who are more recent arrivals who have kept their ties with Mexico, I can't see many who want this.