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Legal Immigration

We Want A System That Is:

Fair

JChoose immigrants intentionally, not randomly.

Responsible

Set levels our communities can sustain.

Pro-Worker

Prioritize Americans' wages and opportunities.

The Scale of the Problem

1M+

Green cards issued every year — twice the level recommended by the last federal commission to study the question

Jordan Commission

$43-$299B

Annual taxpayer burden of current immigration levels, across all levels of government

National Academies of Sciences, 2017

$500B

Transferred every year from workers' wages to owners of capital

National Academies of Sciences, 2017

Key Issues

Family Migration: The Endless Chain

The Problem
  • More than 250,000 green cards a year go to extended relatives — adult siblings, their spouses, their adult kids.
  • Each new arrival can sponsor their own relatives.
  • Backlogs stretch to decades, and the numbers keep climbing.
What We Want
  • Green cards for spouses and minor children of citizens and permanent residents
  • Visitor visas — not green cards — for extended family, keeping ties without permanently expanding the queue

The Visa Lottery: No Way to Run a System

The Problem
  • Every year, 55,000 green cards are awarded by random draw — not skill, not family connection, not humanitarian need. Just luck.
What We Want
  • Eliminate the visa lottery

Work Visas: A Last Resort, Not a First Option

The Problem
  • In theory, work visas fill genuine labor shortages.
  • In practice, they often displace qualified Americans with workers who have little power to push back.
What We Want
  • End programs that offer financial incentives to hire foreign labor over domestic
  • Strictly limit the length — and require fair wages — of temporary worker programs to align with true emergency situations

Birthright Citizenship: Protecting What It Was Meant to Protect

The Problem

The U.S. is one of only two developed nations that grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on its soil, regardless of the parents’ status. A growing global industry — from birth tourism to human smuggling — exploits this gap.

What We Want

Apply future birthright citizenship to children of citizens and permanent legal immigrants.

Tell Congress: Fix Legal Immigration

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