I'd rather have no limits to quantity, but have guidelines on quality.
No Family Reunification Act...
Once one is in legally, at least the immediate family should be brought in.
and no citizenship for babies born on American soil.
From a practical matter, it would take a constitutional amendment to do it. I think it would be a big mistake, in that we'd end up with a glut of people as citizens of no nation, just waiting to be snapped up by the first opportunity.
In addition, I would like to see our borders CLOSED to ALL illegals. All immigrants coming on boats would be detained somewhere but not on OUR soil....and I would like our country to adopt some of the Canadian stringencies to immigration such as the requirement that the immigrant be able to CONTRIBUTE to country...
Fair enough.
Finally, without a doubt, the immigrant should speak FLUENT ENGLISH, and should have a college degree.
I think English should be a prerequisite for citizenship and I'd make welfare only available for citizens. However, I'd allow anyone in, as long as they did not have a serious contagious disease (AIDS or TB, for example; having a case of sniffles would not be a bar to entry) and did not have a criminal record for things that would be crimes in the U.S. (For example, a Chinese family who had been convicted of violating China's population control policies would not be barred -- having more than 1 child is not a crime in the U.S.)