Legal Immigration
Fair
Choose immigrants intentionally, not randomly.
Responsible
Set levels our communities can sustain.
Pro-Worker
Prioritize Americans' wages and opportunities.
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
Family Migration: The Endless Chain
- 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.
- 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
- Every year, 55,000 green cards are awarded by random draw — not skill, not family connection, not humanitarian need. Just luck.
- Eliminate the visa lottery
Work Visas: A Last Resort, Not a First Option
- In theory, work visas fill genuine labor shortages.
- In practice, they often displace qualified Americans with workers who have little power to push back.
- 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 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.
Apply future birthright citizenship to children of citizens and permanent legal immigrants.