American Sun-Light News & Literature

The old saying, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions,” has rarely been more acute than with the passing of the “1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act”, which has had the allegedly unintended consequence of changing the demographics of the United States radically, and continues to be a thorn in the side of bringing about a prudent and conservative immigration policy. The 119th Congress should repeal it in the early days of their session and Trump should sign it on Inauguration Day. Or even Biden signing it before Inauguration Day if he deigned, at least that would be one good thing he did before departing for his much needed retirement in Delaware. In the meantime between repealing Hart-Celler and enacting entirely new legislation to replace it, an immigration moratorium should stand in its stead and, ideally, should be a part of the new legislation for a period of time if Congress cannot agree to a new formula, but would mandate ongoing moratoriums until Congress can put all the parts of a new immigration policy in place.

American Sun-Light News & Literature, more or less, refrains from doing very long essays or a thesis on any one subject, until such time when we may or may not decide to do longer pieces, but we do have a few pointers on what a new immigration policy should look like:

Have a cap on all non-spousal related immigration to no more than 50K per year but with a clause that Congress can enact any minimum cap, that’s under 50K, that they want for as long as they want, or even a moratorium for as long as they want.

Family immigration, except for children, should be specifically spousal and fiance(e) related immigration only and should generally not be capped but would have curtailments for individuals if abuses or trying to game the system are noted by authorities. Yet in still, Congress should leave open the possibility, through a clause, of having caps or limitations by a Congressional vote of a simple majority for any amount and length of time that they deem, or an Executive Order by the President for no longer than the time left on the particular 4-year term of office at the time of signing, reelection notwithstanding, in which case, he would need to sign a new Executive Order if he so deems.

Congress needs to work out the other particulars of immigration on the merits; we just offered a few ideas, and we may offer other ideas in the future, but any imposition of new immigration to America (after the needed repeal of “Hart-Celler”) should be leveraged with prudent, conservative ideas as well as restrictions and limitations on the indefensible, unfettered, mass immigration that negates sovereignty, culture and national security, and that has been ongoing since “Hart-Celler” was passed in 1965.