Offers a fair, humane, and orderly way to allow many of the roughly twelve million migrants currently living illegally in the United States to earn the right to remain legally.Īccording to the report, the high level of illegal immigration in the country is increasingly damaging to U.S.Restores the integrity of immigration laws through an enforcement regime that strongly discourages employers and employees from operating outside that legal system, secures America's borders, and levies significant penalties against those who violate the rules.Reforms the legal immigration system so that it operates more efficiently, responds more accurately to labor market needs, and enhances U.S.The group urges Congress and the Obama administration to move ahead with immigration reform legislation that achieves three critical goals: Immigration Policy reflects the consensus of a bipartisan group of eminent leaders in the fields of immigration policy, homeland security, education, labor, business, academia and human rights. But it warns that "the continued inability of the United States to develop and enforce a workable system of immigration laws threatens to undermine these achievements."ĭirected by CFR Senior Fellow Edward Alden, the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S.
Immigration Policy contends that America has reaped tremendous benefits from opening its doors to immigrants, as well as to students, skilled employees and others who may only live in the country for shorter periods of time.