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What creative immigration policies could possibly work?

I am a downer when it comes to immigration policies. For me I don't think that any possible policy could work, but I am open to suggestions. If someone has a creative immigration policy, doesn't have to be real, that they would like to see inacted, please don't hesitate to enlighten me.

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2. Those who can enter under work permits. Either with a job already or a set time they have to obtain one. And each person will have to register upon entering. A felony crime and certain misdemeanors mean permanent deportation. Then I think we should make some concessions if the immigrant joins the military. Say for 10 years, they would automatically get citizenship if they did not get into trouble.
3. you are granted A short visit to look for jobs then once you have a job you may become a citizen
4. Create some kind of "Immigrant Worker's Number" that requires the employer to tax the immigrant on his/her wages but does not allow the worker to file income taxes and get citizen benefits since they are not citizens. Call it a "worker's fee" that the employee pays the government to be allowed to work. The business should also be required to pay a penalty for hiring the immigrant worker(s) as opposed to a US citizen.
5. 1. I'm an immigrant - and I agree with not being allowed on goverments funds - but then I dont want to pay to keep uk people on the dole. So if agree never to use public funding, I don't want to pay for others to use it. The reason it's so easy for me to get jobs is cause people in the uk just want to be on the dole. Not my problem. 2. I promise to intergrate into society and embrace the culture here, rather than try to force the uk to like my culture.
6. In the UK. Only allow people with qualifications to match our own. Only allow if a UK citizen can't fill that post. No qualifications at point of interview, no interview. Must be sponsored by a registered company. Must Have accommodation prearranged. No criminal record. Show sufficient funds. No mental illnesses. Review after 12 months. Put that in place and expell all that are state funded and the problems solved.
7. take away incentives, especially birthright citizenship. No jobs, no welfare, no education and they will not come.
8. First and simplest thing (but not easy, as a constitutional amendment is never easy to get passed), pass an amendment that spells out clearly that you must be born here to parents who are here LEGALLY in order to be automatically given U.S. citizenship. Now is the time for a high-tech border fence with Mexico. If they're going to spend $1 trillion, better make it worth it. That's the only kind of change I can believe in. It would put a lot of people to work engineering it, building it and monitoring it. It would keep more illegals from Mexico coming here and using our hospitals for free which would save us money and shorten wait times in emergency rooms in border states. It would cut back on much of the horrible, gratuitously violent drug trade related crime happening in some American border towns and the whole thing would force Mexico to take charge of their own population. It would fix a lot of overcrowding of schools. Then we can begin to figure out who is here, figure out if they are criminals (if so, they are instantly deported back to Mexico or wherever they came from) and if they are not, they will pay back taxes and fill out paperwork to obtain legal status (not citizenship, mind you). That means they will have some kind of status as guest workers and make re-entry like everyone else who comes here on a visa if they wish to hold a job. They can pay back taxes or a minimum estimated penalty. They will have payroll taxes deducted but will not be eligible for Social Security benefits or Medicare. They will not be entitled to Medicaid or Foodstamps, period. This is still a much better prospect for many of them than is living in Mexico, so let's take advantage of that. Our currency is so much stronger that it is still worthwhile. And if it motivates a movement to make life better there, then so be it.
9. Moratorium on all immigration - civilized countries just don't need it.
10. End chain migration. Cut back immigration to under 500,000 a year. Give every immigrant a secure ID card, and make it a federal felony for an illegal alien to work in the USA without a valid card. Chain Migration http://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/rewards/reducing-legal-immigration.html Chain migration is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple from about 250,000 per year in the 1950s and 1960s to more than one million a year since 1990. As such, it is one of the chief culprits in America's current record-breaking population boom and all the attendant sprawl, congestion, school overcrowding, and other impacts that reduce American's quality of life. Chain migration is about family reunification beyond the nuclear family. Until the late 1950s, America's immigration tradition of family unity had only included spouses and minor children. But since then, immigrants can also send for their siblings, parents and adult children. These non-nuclear family members actually get precedence over an immigrant’s nuclear family. This ill-conceived system also creates incentives for illegal immigration because adult relatives of legal residents are known to overstay their visas (becoming illegal aliens) in hopes of becoming legal immigrants. Moreover, since hundreds of millions of people in the world have a relative in the U.S., the migration chain can eventually reach them all.