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
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.