My solution for Immigration Reform.
It’ll work.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3148967/posts?page=64#64
If I am reading it correctly they could become voters in 15 years under #3.
I like your ideas but here’s the problem... there are hundreds of millions of people in the world who would be happy to do everything you asked... and some of them could scrape together enough money for a plane ticket or freighter ride here.
There are more people in China with the last name of ‘Wang’ then there are people living in the United States... If we only took in the 20% of people in the world who verged on being Saints we wouldn’t have room for them...
That said, what you’ve come up with is many times fairer than anything our ‘representatives’ have come up with...