Immigration
We believe: Legal immigration is a vital and valuable asset for the USA.
We support:
Modernize Legal Immigration
🎯 Objective:
Create a legal immigration system that reflects the needs of the 21st-century economy and respects family unity.
✅ Key Actions:
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Update Visa Caps: Adjust annual employment and family-based visa quotas to reflect current labor market demands.
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Streamline Green Card Backlogs: Recapture unused visas from previous years and expedite processing for long-waiting applicants.
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Create a Points-Based Visa Track: Establish a merit-based visa option that considers education, skills, U.S. ties, and language proficiency.
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Support STEM and High-Demand Occupations: Increase H-1B and EB visa availability for sectors like health care, AI, and green energy.
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Ensure Family Reunification: Prioritize visas for immediate family members and remove country-specific per-country limits.
📘 Provide a Pathway to Citizenship
🎯 Objective:
Integrate undocumented immigrants who contribute to the economy and society, especially Dreamers and long-term residents.
✅ Key Actions:
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Pass the DREAM Act: Provide permanent legal status and a path to citizenship for DACA recipients and other Dreamers.
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Earned Legalization Program: Offer undocumented immigrants a multi-step process to gain legal status through background checks, taxes, and community ties.
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Agricultural and Essential Workers Act: Legalize status for long-term essential workers in farming, caregiving, and frontline jobs.
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Remove Barriers to Naturalization: Reduce costs and paperwork, and increase outreach to encourage eligible immigrants to become citizens.
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Eliminate Arbitrary Bans: Repeal 3- and 10-year reentry bans that punish family-based immigrants who try to regularize their status.
📘 Restore Order and Fairness to the Asylum System
🎯 Objective:
Rebuild an efficient, lawful asylum process that reflects U.S. humanitarian commitments.
✅ Key Actions:
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Hire More Immigration Judges: Clear the 2+ million case backlog with increased staffing, training, and resources.
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Create Regional Processing Centers: Establish safe, orderly screening facilities in Latin America to reduce irregular border crossings.
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End For-Profit Immigration Detention: Use community-based alternatives to detention for low-risk asylum seekers and families.
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Protect Vulnerable Populations: Guarantee expedited protections for asylum seekers, victims of domestic violence, and unaccompanied minors.
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Implement Fair, Timely Hearings: Use smart scheduling and tech-based case management to ensure due process for asylum claims.
📘 Secure the Border with Smart, Humane Policies
🎯 Objective:
Ensure a secure, functional border that upholds U.S. laws and values.
✅ Key Actions:
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Use 21st-Century Technology: Expand drones, sensors, and biometric systems at legal ports of entry, rather than building ineffective walls.
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Modernize Ports of Entry: Increase staffing and infrastructure to detect smuggling and facilitate legitimate crossings.
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Target Cartels and Trafficking Networks: Enhance cross-border law enforcement partnerships to disrupt transnational crime.
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Protect Migrants from Abuse: Ban child separation, uphold anti-trafficking protocols, and ensure humane treatment at border facilities.
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Coordinate with Neighbors: Work with Mexico and Central American governments on joint border management and development projects.
📘 Align Immigration with Economic and Humanitarian Goals
🎯 Objective:
Make immigration policy work for national prosperity and global leadership.
✅ Key Actions:
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Create a Standing Immigration Policy Commission: An independent body to recommend annual visa numbers based on real-time labor data.
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Invest in Integration Programs: Expand English classes, job training, and civic education for newcomers to fully participate in U.S. society.
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Fund Local Governments and NGOs: Provide resources to cities and nonprofits that support resettlement, housing, and legal aid.
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Protect Climate and Conflict Refugees: Prepare new humanitarian categories for those displaced by war or environmental crisis.
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Promote Legal Pathways Abroad: Increase consular capacity to process work and family visas faster in high-demand regions.
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Congressional Committees That Oversee Immigration
U.S. Senate
🔹 Senate Committee on the Judiciary
The main Senate committee for immigration law and policy.
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Jurisdiction includes:
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Immigration reform legislation
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Visa programs (family, employment, student, humanitarian)
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Citizenship and asylum laws
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Oversight of immigration courts and federal immigration agencies
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Relevant Subcommittee:
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Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety
🔹 Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Focuses on border security, visa policy implementation, and federal agency coordination.
🔹 Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Subcommittee on Homeland Security
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Controls federal spending for DHS immigration-related functions (e.g., ICE, CBP, USCIS).
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U.S. House of Representatives
🔹 House Committee on the Judiciary
The primary committee responsible for immigration policy.
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Jurisdiction includes:
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Immigration and nationality laws
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Border security legal frameworks
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Refugee and asylum policy
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Citizenship and naturalization
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Oversight of immigration enforcement agencies (USCIS, ICE, CBP)
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Relevant Subcommittee:
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Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement
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Reviews immigration reform proposals, visa policy, and enforcement practices.
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🔹 House Committee on Homeland Security
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Focuses on operational aspects of immigration enforcement.
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Jurisdiction includes:
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Border security
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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Visa security and entry-exit tracking
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🔹 House Committee on Appropriations
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Subcommittee on Homeland Security
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Controls funding for immigration agencies like ICE, CBP, and USCIS.
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