Immigration Reform: A Path Forward
As sweeping immigration reform is highly unlikely, there are certain targeted reforms that are both urgently needed and potentially achievable; such as:
== To protect DREAMers, we propose a new, indefinite “conditional residence status” to DREAMers with protection from deportation, work authorization, and the right to travel abroad
== State-based Immigration Programs: This proposal would authorize state governors to ask DOL and/or DHS to approve additional worker petitions to authorize the hiring of immigrants by employers in their respective states
== Border Management and Asylum Reform
== Improve access to refugee resettlement to the United States and other countries in the Western Hemisphere for those who qualify
== Expand other avenues to legal migration
== Reform asylum for border arrivals
== Explore demands for both asylum and border reforms that would partially be ameliorated by new immigrant worker programs
== Build on Current Proposals for Essential Workers
== Help the healthcare services industry to recruit foreign national workers from countries in the Western Hemisphere for those who qualify
For more on these proposals see here