Clearly, your expertise on this subject is much greater than mine.
My own favorite solution is an income based visa/immigration policy.
If you can get a contractual job offer for $150,000 per year, here’s your visa.
If you can stay above $150,000 for three years, here are your citizenship papers.
Our current policy is not just economically insane, it’s political suicide for American Conservatives.
America has added roughly 10 million new citizens in the last 10 years.
Although their voter turnout is quite low, they vote 75%-80% for the Democrat Party.
Advocate a pro-immigrant policy of low immigration. Republicans need to provide the American people with their own comprehensive immigration reform plan, i.e., give people a reason to vote FOR something rather than just attack the other side’s proposals. Such a plan should contain the following elements:
Formulate a merit based immigration system that brings in the skills and talents to keep us competitive in the global economy;
Reduce immigration levels based on need more closely approximating 300,000 a year;
Eliminate extended chain migration, i.e., family reunification, limiting it to the nuclear family,
Secure the border;
Enforce existing immigration laws to reduce the current illegal alien population and limit future illegal immigration, i.e., attrition thru enforcement. Enforcement would include: (1) ending the job magnet; (2) increasing coordination at the federal level by eliminating barriers to information sharing among agencies; (3) leveraging state and local enforcement resources; (4) fully implementing the US-VISIT Program to track and deport visa overstays; and (5) make mandatory and improve such programs as E-Verify and 287 [g] authority to assist employers and law enforcement in identifying illegal aliens;
Eliminate birthright citizenship and the visa lottery program;
Ensure that anyone who enters this nation illegally is not rewarded by being permitted to stay and work here; i.e., no amnesty;
Streamline the processing and adjudication of immigration cases;
Promote pro-immigrant measures that help newcomers assimilate and embrace the values and principles of our Founders and the Constitution.
Although their voter turnout is quite low, they vote 75%-80% for the Democrat Party.
The numbers are telling. California has the demographics the US will have in 2050. We are seeing the impact electorally in places like Nevada, Colorado, NM, and AZ. It is having an impact in VA and NC. Once Texas goes purple then blue, it is game, set, and match. Here is an excellent study by Jim Gimpel, Professor of Government at the University of Maryland:
Immigration, Political Realignment, and the Demise of Republican Political Prospects
Unfortunately, many in the Rep Establishment think that there is a conservative hiding within the rapidly growing Hispanic population. They like to cite the fact that they are hard working and religious. They are in denial when it comes to the real state of the Hispanic family in America, i.e., rampant out of control out of wedlock birth rates, high school drop out rates, high usage of welfare programs, etc. Hispanics are natural Dem constituents, which is why they vote 65-35 Dem and the data show that the more recent immigrants vote an even higher percentage.
Hispanic Family Values? Runaway illegitimacy is creating a new U.S. underclass