ReEnvisioning Immigration
A sensible policy prioritizes spouses and kids, protects the most vulnerable, and empowers the domestic workforce.
Track Key LegislationReEnvisioning: Family-Based Migration
Whereas the current system creates an unintentional “chain migration,” backlogs, frustration, illegal immigration, and a level of immigration incompatible with conservation and economic justice, our vision would:
ReEnvisioning: Value of U.S. Citizenship
Whereas the current system raffles away green cards and puts tourists who give birth in the U.S. on a path to citizenship, our vision would:
ReEnvisioning: Temporary Guest Worker Programs
Whereas the current system displaces qualified Americans with exploitable foreign workers, our vision would:
ReEnvisioning: Employment-Based Immigration
Whereas the current system too often brings in workers with skills similar to Americans and/or drains the sending countries of the “change agents” necessary to improve the lives of those left behind, our vision would:
ReEnvisioning: Humanitarian Immigration
Whereas the current system – riddled with fraud – primarily serves non-urgent refugees, economic migrants, and government-funded resettlement agencies; whereas the current system is riddled with fraud; and whereas just one percent of the 20 million refugees worldwide are resettled, our vision would: