We need the immigration laws put back in place that were in effect in 1952 when my family immigrated here. It required an American sponsor who vouchsafed he would be responsible financially for the first 5 years of said immigrant family, the immigrant had to have an offer of a job in this country before arrival, and had to be medically in tip top shape. Also the visas were set up to be basically Euro-based peoples as those numbers permitted to emigrate were apportioned by the numbers of the ancestry of Americans living in the country. Thus Britain, Germany, and other European counries had the largest visas issued for immigrants. Now visas are based on the size of the countries, leading to a lot of immigrants who arrive, don’t speak English, job offers no longer required, who instantly go on welfare and tend to stay on welfare. We need immigration reform desperately..
Or enforcement of what exists now. There have got to be hundreds of thousands of visa overstays that would catch a plane home tomorrow if looking at jail time.
I agree with you. The “1965 Immigration Act” was/is a nightmare. Immigration is supposed to benefit the host country/us, not the other way around.