5: Talent
Become a global magnet for talent.
Stakeholder(s):
- Republicans: Summary: Republicans must accept that the United States must increase legal immigration levels and use immigration policy
to become a global magnet for talent. -- Republicans must accept that our current level of legal immigration is not sufficient
to make up for our modest native birthrates or to create enough economic activity to afford the retirement of the Baby Boom.
They must accept that deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants is expensive and impractical, and that efforts to
keep them outside of the legal structure of employment are counterproductive for the economy. Policies Republicans should
embrace include increasing the level of legal immigration by at least 100,000 per year; allowing undocumented immigrants who
came here as children to earn citizenship through educational attainment; providing an avenue for other undocumented immigrants
to attain permanent legal status; and recruiting and retaining high-skilled immigrants who come to our colleges and universities
through pathways to citizenship.
- Democrats: Summary: Democrats must accept that legislation must tilt future immigration flows into the country decidedly in the direction
of skills and education. -- Democrats must accept that perpetually allowing illegal immigrants to earn citizenship only encourages
more illegal immigration. They must accept that citizenship is not a commodity but a treasured credential. Our current legal
immigration system is tilted too heavily toward family migration and not skills. U.S. immigration policy should be designed,
first and foremost, to solve America's economic needs. Policies Democrats should embrace include a more skills-based immigration
policy by reserving all new immigration slots for high-skilled entrants; curtailing some future familybased immigration; and
accepting permanent legality that is short of citizenship for much of the 11 million.
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