Two varieties:

1. Lifting restrictions, or alternatively expanding visas, for skilled workers, from industrial to tech, who have the skills to contribute to the growth of the economy and fill needs that our own citizens’ skills lack. That may or may not lead to green card availability.

1. For the others

   A. Current asylum laws as to refugees, as a statement of what American ideals are. We have absorbed gazillions of refugees—in my area, a huge number from SE Asia after Vietnam, with a vibrant addition to our culture. An amazing number are now established small sized entrepreneurs.

   B. Allowance of others in line with the current quotas established for other immigrants from other nations, depending on the nature of the grounds for asylum determined most needful by the AG/Secretary for Homeland Security.

C. Amnesty or better a path to a green card for the “overstayed visa” sort of undocumented persons —those who have demonstrated actual contributions to our society, particularly those who have established successful businesses—I know a bunch of those folks, who pay taxes (if only sales taxes, over 10% where I live) but get no benefits.

D. Those in special circumstances already in place and allowed to stay after consideration by the immigration courts. Those don’t have a green option. One example is a guy I know who can stay here till his minor children are grown.

In all of these, the ideal to aim for is contribution to our society economically and culturally.