I wish someone would take a look at Mexico’s policy on immigrants and implement some of it here as a start.
From the Law...
“Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:
1. In the country legally;
2. Have the means to sustain themselves economically;
3. Not destined to be burdens on society;
4. Of economic and social benefit to society;
5. Of good character and have no criminal records; and
6. Contributors to the general well-being of the nation.”
Read a ton more here:
http://mysorebutt.com/immigration-law.php
The difference is that nobody wants to immigrate to Mexico (or not nearly on the scale of people who want to immigrate to the US!). We actually have all of those requirements in our own law, but because we have a complicated structure of quotas (for refugee or other special status, countries, regions, job categories, etc.) it’s not particularly relevant.
We need to redo the entire system.