Part Five 1077 words
The Recipe for Perfect Immigration Policy
Congress scattered the ingredients across several bills
We can register every illegal, secure our borders, reduce USCIS caseloads, and even fix Social Security, all without driving down wages, taking citizens' jobs, straining welfare, rolling up the welcome mat at the Statue of Liberty, or erasing "love thy neighbor as thyself" from the American character 

By Dave Leach (Dave Leach is listed in “Who’s Who in Media and Communications”. Contact: HispanicHope@Saltshaker.US.
Translation into Spanish by Gabriela G. Buenrostro, former newspaper and magazine journalist and writer, and former host Zero Radio Show in Mexico City. (Write to her at Gabriela@Saltshaker.US)

Part 5: “Quotas” should be replaced with “Criteria”; we should welcome not just an arbitrary number, but the best. 
 From S1645: the lifting of quotas so that every applicant for LPR (Legal Permanent Residency) who meets the high qualifications, will receive LPR. This would turn Temporary Resident Status into a probation period for citizenship. To the extent the program is fair, trustworthy, and objective (so that applicants know how many points they need, how to earn them, and how to measure their progress), current unauthorized workers ("illegal aliens") would come out of the woodwork to voluntarily register with the INS, and illegal border crossings would stop. Why? Because immigrants would rather work legally, than in fear.
A shopkeeper in Reynoso who worked illegally in Chicago for several years said the worst part of it was that she was afraid to complain to her boss about a matter which was very oppressive, but which might have been corrected by just talking about it. Not knowing how the boss would react, she feared both being reported to the INS by that boss, and not being able to find other work if she were fired.
Probationary Legal Work Period. From HR2899: a legal work period of 3 years, renewable for a second 3 years, (without the requirement of having to return to the home country in between), which is available not just for agricultural workers but for all workers. The breaking up of the period into 12 month periods which must be renewed, as S1387 requires, would serve the purpose of more frequent voluntary reports of workers to the INS. But two three-year renewable periods, if linked to the point system, would pressure workers to make progress during their first three years or face non-renewal. Six years would be a reasonable time to expect progress by the point criteria.
Enforcement. From S1387, an enforcement scheme that relies on strong positive incentives for both employers and employees to cooperate with each other and to report voluntarily to the INS. It does not rely on INS armies of bookkeepers poring over employers' records and imposing draconian fines for technical errors in filling out forms, as HR2899 provides, or lawsuits against employers, as S1645 would encourage.
A Simpler Bill. Actually there are some details Congress is sure to adopt whose only real purpose is to assure citizens that imaginary problems are taken care of.
For example, as Part Three of this series will make clear, it is not necessary to keep immigrants out of the country until a job opens up which citizens do not want, because every immigrant who comes here to work, also becomes a consumer of services purchased from citizens, which creates as many new jobs for citizens as there are new workers from the South.
There are other details Congress may adopt which are not necessary for the U.S. job market, but which may produce positive benefits which will soften criticism of reform.
For example, the Point System is an extra requirement not demanded of other immigrants. But since it would help turn Hispanic immigrants into the best quality citizens America could hope for, it would help soften criticism of reform. And since it is what most immigrants would want anyway, to enable them to participate in our government when they finally become citizens, we may as well propose it.
A simple, no-frills immigration plan which would accomplish just as much for America's job market is proposed by Des Moines immigration attorney Michael Said.
1. Anyone (not wanted by law enforcement) can get an annual work permit for $1,000. This allows anyone to legally work, and get a special Social Security number which would not make anyone eligible for welfare. This should make the U.S. Treasury happy! An extra $8 billion for the U.S. Treasury, if the estimate of 8 million illegals is correct, not counting new immigrants who would come! They could get a drivers' license, and insurance (which unauthorized workers cannot now legally purchase!) to protect citizens whom they run into. Free from the shadows, Hispanics could openly help each other, so they would not need handouts. Suddenly the USCIS would have everybody registered, without hardly any investment of staff time, and $8 billion per year richer! The USCIS would have plenty of time to go after the handful who remain unregistered, who will more likely be the real criminals and terrorists.
2. The permit would be renewable every year. It would be available to as many as want it, renewable as often as workers want to renew it.
3. Workers would have to prove only that they pay their taxes, including social security taxes, that they have not committed a crime or relied on welfare, and that the address they report is correct. How could even the most cold hearted anti-immigrant complain? Millions of workers willing to pay into the U.S. treasury and never take anything out! Willing to benefit the U.S. economy more than any citizen is willing to do! Willing not only to pay the taxes every citizen does, but another $1,000 per year besides! Willing, by the way, to fix our Social Security problem for us, created by our abortions of 50 million workers, which are leaving the generation responsible for them, without enough workers to support them in their old age.
4. Stay clean for 10 years, and the worker receives LPR (Legal Permanent Residency, or The Green Card).
How much simpler could it be? How little USCIS bureaucracy would be needed to monitor those who register! Who would still try to cross the borders illegally, except for the real criminals, if immigrants could legally work?
Next week: Why the Point System will benefit immigrants as well as citizens; why immigrants should still support a Point System even if quotas were repealed.