Policy Document Series · Issue 5 of 35 · April 2026
Assets, Not Threats
Immigrants contribute 18% of US GDP while comprising 14.3% of the population. Undocumented immigrants alone paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. The CBO projects immigration will add $348 billion in Social Security revenues over the next decade. This platform treats immigrants as assets to invest in, not threats to defend against.
Immigration is simultaneously an economic necessity and a humanitarian obligation. The United States is an aging nation: without sustained immigration, Social Security faces structural insolvency, healthcare faces a workforce cliff, and construction faces collapse.
Nine policy areas: a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented residents; immediate permanent residency for DACA recipients; clearing the legal immigration backlog; a functional asylum system; smart border enforcement; a 21st-century economic immigration system; employer enforcement with criminal penalties; ending for-profit detention; federal integration investment; and constitutional protections including birthright citizenship.
Immigrants make up 18.2% of all healthcare workers, 29.8% of all construction workers, and have founded 51% of US startup companies worth $1 billion or more. The question is not whether America benefits from immigration — the data is unambiguous. The question is whether we build a system worthy of the people who choose to come here.
The American immigration system is broken in every direction simultaneously — for undocumented residents, for legal immigrants waiting in line, for asylum seekers, for employers, and for taxpayers who fund an enforcement apparatus that does not work.
The dysfunction of the current immigration system is not accidental. It was built through decades of contradictory policies: opening the economy to immigrant labor while closing the legal pathways that would make that labor lawful.
1882
Chinese Exclusion Act
The first federal law to ban immigration based on race and nationality. Prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the United States and barred Chinese residents from naturalization. Renewed repeatedly and not fully repealed until 1943. Established the precedent that immigration law could be used as a tool of racial exclusion — a pattern that would define the next century of American policy.
1924
National Origins Act
The Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act) established national origin quotas designed to preserve the existing ethnic composition of the United States — effectively banning immigration from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East while sharply restricting Southern and Eastern European immigration. Annual quotas were set at 2% of each nationality's population as recorded in the 1890 census — a deliberate choice of a baseline year that predated the wave of Italian, Jewish, and Slavic immigration. This system remained the law of the land for 41 years.
1965
Hart-Celler Act (Immigration and Nationality Act)
Abolished the racial national origins quota system of 1924 — a landmark civil rights achievement signed by President Johnson at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. But it established per-country caps (20,000 per country) that would later create the massive backlogs we see today. Set the family-heavy allocation (64.6% family, 16.7% employment) that still governs the system six decades later. The per-country caps treated India (population 1.4 billion) and Iceland (population 370,000) identically — a structural flaw that Congress has never corrected.
1986
IRCA — Reagan Amnesty
The Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by President Reagan, legalized 2.7 million undocumented residents while imposing employer sanctions. The legalization worked — those 2.7 million integrated into the economy, paid taxes, and contributed to Social Security. The employer enforcement never materialized: Congress funded legalization but starved enforcement. A new undocumented population grew as employers faced no meaningful consequences for hiring unauthorized workers. The lesson: legalization without sustained employer enforcement is incomplete reform.
1996
IIRIRA — The Enforcement-Only Pivot
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 fundamentally shifted U.S. policy toward enforcement-only. It created the 3-year and 10-year reentry bars (anyone unlawfully present for 180+ days was barred from reentry for 3 years; 1 year+ triggered a 10-year bar), which perversely incentivized people to stay illegally rather than leave and reapply legally. It expanded expedited removal, restricted judicial review, and increased penalties for unauthorized entry. Legal pathways were not expanded. The result: more enforcement, more spending, same migration patterns — just through more dangerous routes.
2001
Post-9/11 — Security Over Everything
The 2002 Homeland Security Act abolished the INS and split immigration functions across three new agencies under DHS: ICE (enforcement), CBP (border), and USCIS (services). Immigration policy was reframed entirely through a national security lens. The USCIS backlog exploded as resources were redirected to enforcement. Visa screening became a security apparatus. Legal immigration processing times doubled and tripled. The security framework was legitimate — but the failure to simultaneously expand legal capacity created the backlog crisis that persists today.
2012
DACA — Executive Action Fills the Gap
President Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program by executive order after Congress failed to pass the DREAM Act. 515,600 recipients — brought to the U.S. as children — received renewable 2-year work permits and deportation relief. DACA recipients achieved a 92.4% employment rate and generated $108 billion in wages over the program's first decade. But DACA was always constitutionally fragile — an executive action that any subsequent president could attempt to rescind.
2013
The Gang of Eight — Bipartisan Reform Dies in the House
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 passed the Senate 68–32 with strong bipartisan support. It included a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented residents, $46 billion in border security spending, visa reform, and employer verification. The CBO scored it as reducing the federal deficit by $197 billion over 10 years and increasing GDP by 3.3% over 20 years. House Speaker John Boehner refused to bring it to a floor vote. The most comprehensive immigration reform bill since 1986 died without a House vote — despite having enough votes to pass in both chambers.
2017–2021
Family Separations and Enforcement Escalation
The "zero tolerance" policy (2018) systematically separated children from parents at the border — over 5,500 children were taken from their families (DHS Inspector General). Hundreds of children were not reunited for months or years; some parents were deported without their children. Simultaneously: asylum restrictions tightened through the Remain in Mexico policy (MPP), refugee admissions were cut from 110,000 to 15,000 (the lowest in program history), and attempts were made to end DACA and restrict birthright citizenship. The immigration system's dysfunction became a political weapon rather than a problem to solve.
2020s
The Breaking Point
The asylum backlog exceeded 1.4 million cases. USCIS processing times reached historic highs — 11.65 million cases pending, 6.28 million formally backlogged. For-profit detention expanded, with 33 deaths in ICE custody in 2025 — the highest non-COVID total on record. Indian EB-2 green card applicants faced theoretical wait times of 134 years. The system was broken in every direction simultaneously, serving no one's interests — not enforcement advocates, not immigrant advocates, not employers, not taxpayers.
Countries that manage immigration well share common features: clear legal pathways, fast processing, employer accountability, and investment in integration. Countries that fail share a different set: restricted legal channels, massive backlogs, enforcement-only approaches, and zero integration investment.
| Country | Model | Key Feature | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | Express Entry points system | ~500,000 permanent residents/year; category-based draws; $3.1B in settlement services | Highest-skilled intake globally; strong fiscal outcomes |
| Australia | Points-based skilled migration | Mandatory settlement services; credential recognition; English training | Second-generation immigrants outperform native-born economically |
| Germany | Skilled Immigration Act (2020) | Shifted from Gastarbeiter model to skilled pathway; recognition of foreign qualifications | Correcting 60-year integration deficit; still catching up |
| New Zealand | RSE seasonal worker scheme | Legal, regulated seasonal labor; portable between employers; community development in sending nations | 1% overstay rate; documented development benefits |
| Sweden | Generous intake, weak integration | Humanitarian intake without proportional integration spending | Worst OECD immigrant employment gap (cautionary) |
| United States | Enforcement-only | Restricted legal paths; massive backlogs; zero integration | 11M undocumented; 134-year wait; record detention deaths |
Canada — Express Entry Points System
Canada admits approximately 500,000 permanent residents per year (2024 target: 485,000) through its Express Entry system, which ranks applicants on age, education, language ability, work experience, and Canadian job offers using the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS). Average processing time for Express Entry: 6 months or less — compared to 20–134 years for comparable U.S. employment-based categories. Canada also invests $3.1 billion annually in settlement services: language training (English and French), job placement, credential recognition, and civic orientation. The result: immigrant employment rates approach native-born rates within 5 years, and second-generation immigrants outperform native-born Canadians on educational attainment and earnings (Statistics Canada, 2023). Canada also recognizes partnership visas, allowing common-law and same-sex partners to sponsor immigration — a category the U.S. system does not meaningfully accommodate.
Australia — Skilled Migration + Integration
Australia's points-based General Skilled Migration program evaluates applicants on skills, English proficiency, age, and education — with occupation-specific lists updated annually based on labor market analysis. Australia's Adult Migrant English Program provides 510 hours of free English tuition to all new permanent residents and humanitarian entrants. The Skill Assessment process allows foreign-trained professionals to have their qualifications recognized before arrival, reducing the chronic underemployment of skilled immigrants that plagues the U.S. system. Second-generation immigrants in Australia earn 5–10% more than native-born Australians with equivalent education (Productivity Commission, 2024). Australia demonstrates that investment in credential recognition and language training produces fiscal returns within one generation.
Germany — The 2020 Skilled Immigration Act (Correcting a 60-Year Mistake)
Germany's Gastarbeiter ("guest worker") program (1955–1973) recruited millions of Turkish, Italian, and Greek workers on temporary contracts with no pathway to citizenship, no language training, no integration services, and no expectation of permanence. The workers stayed. Germany spent the next 60 years paying the social costs of that decision: segregated communities, high unemployment among second-generation immigrants, and persistent educational achievement gaps. The Skilled Immigration Act of 2020 (Fachkraefteeinwanderungsgesetz) finally pivoted: it opened legal pathways for non-EU skilled workers, accelerated recognition of foreign qualifications, and expanded integration courses. Germany's experience is the single strongest cautionary tale for the United States: temporary status without integration investment produces permanent social costs that dwarf the price of doing it right from the beginning.
New Zealand — RSE Seasonal Worker Program
New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme, launched in 2007, provides legal seasonal work permits for Pacific Island workers in horticulture and viticulture. Workers receive guaranteed minimum hours, regulated wages, employer-provided housing, and portable permits (they can change employers). The overstay rate: 1% — compared to estimated 40–50% visa overstay rates in comparable U.S. temporary worker categories (MBIE Policy Review, 2023). The program also requires employers to contribute to community development in sending nations — creating economic incentives for circular migration rather than permanent unauthorized settlement. The CGP's seasonal worker reform is modeled directly on this program.
The pattern is clear across every successful system: clear legal pathways + fast processing + employer accountability + integration investment = strong fiscal outcomes and low unauthorized immigration. The U.S. has none of these. Canada processes skilled workers in 6 months; the U.S. takes 20–134 years. New Zealand achieves a 1% overstay rate through legal pathways; the U.S. criminalizes the same workers. Massachusetts found that language training alone generates a 6% annual taxpayer return. The lesson: investment in integration produces fiscal returns that enforcement alone never can.
Nine interconnected reforms address every failure in the system simultaneously. The core principle running through all nine: immigrants are assets to invest in, not threats to defend against.
Pathway to Citizenship
Standard Pathway: 5+ years continuous residence, no serious
criminal record, background check, back taxes paid (payment plan available). Leads to 5-year
conditional permanent residency, then citizenship eligibility. Covers approximately 11 million
undocumented residents.
DACA Recipients: Immediate permanent residency upon application. No waiting
period. 515,600 recipients are Americans in every meaningful sense — 92.4% employed, $108
billion in wages over their first decade.
TPS Holders: Permanent residency pathway for those with 5+ years in the U.S.
Agricultural Workers: Same pathway as everyone else — equal dignity, equal
process. Plus the Agricultural Labor Standards Act: full FLSA coverage, NLRA organizing rights
(repealing the 1935 exclusion), and OSHA standards.
Clear the Legal Backlog
5× Immigration Judges: Expand from 520 to 2,500 over 5 years.
Reclassified as Article I judges — independent of DOJ, insulated from political removal.
Eliminate Per-Country Caps: Unified global queue ranked by application date.
India and Iceland no longer receive identical allocations regardless of demand.
Recapture Unused Visas: All unused employment-based visas from FY1992 forward
added to the current pool immediately.
6-Month Processing Mandate: USCIS must process all applications within 6 months.
Failure triggers automatic interim work authorization.
A Functional Asylum System
6-Month Processing Standard: Dedicated asylum officer corps,
streamlined credible fear interviews within 21–45 days, technology investment in case
management.
Universal Legal Representation: Federal public defender program. Represented
applicants appear at 96–99% rates. Cheaper than detention ($4.50/day vs. $152/day).
Credible Fear Standards Maintained: Speed, not standards, is the problem.
Lowering evidentiary standards is not proposed.
End Blanket Border Closures: Asylum is a legal right under U.S. and international
law. Closures redirect migration to more dangerous routes — they do not reduce it.
Smart Border Enforcement
Technology-First: Sensors, cameras, drones, ground radar,
AI-assisted processing at ports of entry. Most drug interdiction happens at ports of entry —
physical barriers between them are the least effective investment per dollar spent.
No Wall. No Militarization. Both spending categories eliminated and reallocated
to effective measures at ports of entry.
Root-Cause Investment: $5 billion/year in development aid and anti-corruption
programs in high-emigration countries. The most cost-effective immigration enforcement investment
available — addressing migration at its source rather than at the border.
Economic Immigration Reform
Category-Based Economic Stream: Modeled on Canada's Express
Entry. Targets healthcare, STEM, skilled trades, clean energy. Additive — does not reduce family
or diversity allocations.
Preserve Family Reunification: Family stability accelerates economic integration.
Per-country caps eliminated across all categories.
Seasonal Workers — NZ RSE Model: Replaces broken H-2A/H-2B. Legal status, fair
wages, portable between employers. Produces 1% overstay rate in New Zealand.
Independent Immigration Commission: Sets annual levels based on housing starts,
infrastructure capacity, and integration funding — preventing intake from exceeding the nation's
absorptive capacity.
Employer Enforcement
Criminal Penalties: First offense: $50,000/worker + full
back-wage restitution. Second offense: criminal charges, personal officer liability, federal
contract debarment. Zero criminal prosecutions in FY2018-19 ends immediately.
Reformed E-Verify: 3-year phase-in, but only after false positive rate drops
below 0.5%. Currently misses 54% of unauthorized workers and erroneously blocks 10,000 legal
workers per year.
Wage Theft Crackdown: DOL enforcement doubled. Recovery regardless of
immigration status. Whistleblower protection: workers who report receive temporary protected
status during investigation — breaking the deportation-threat leverage employers use.
End For-Profit Detention
Phase Out Over 3 Years: All for-profit ICE detention
contracts terminated. No new contracts from enactment.
Alternatives as Default: Community supervision and ankle monitors for civil
immigration cases. Detention reserved for documented flight risk or public safety threats only.
Cost: $4.50/day vs. $152/day — comparable appearance rates.
Close Family Detention Entirely: No child detained for a parent's immigration
status, under any circumstances.
Integration Investment
Federal Integration Program ($3–5B/year): Language training
(6% annual taxpayer return documented in Massachusetts), civic orientation, job placement, and
credential recognition so immigrant professionals can practice their skills in the U.S.
Integration Tied to Levels: Independent commission must certify that integration
capacity matches intake before raising targets — preventing the Swedish/German failure mode.
Education Access: Legal immigrants and pathway participants access free community
college and trade school under Issue 4's universal education platform.
Constitutional Protections
Birthright Citizenship: Defended unconditionally. The 14th
Amendment is not ambiguous. No executive order can remove this constitutional right — any such
attempt will be challenged and defeated in federal court.
Due Process for All: Every person in the U.S. — regardless of immigration status
— has Fifth Amendment rights. No detention without probable cause. No deportation without a
hearing. No mass roundups without individual warrants.
The immigration program is largely self-financing — the pathway to citizenship alone generates massive fiscal returns, and most enforcement reforms produce net savings.
| Investment | Annual Cost | Offset / Return |
|---|---|---|
| Immigration judge expansion (520 to 2,500) | ~$500M–$1B/yr | 8.6% of ICE custody budget; backlog clearance produces economic returns |
| Universal asylum legal representation | ~$1–2B/yr | Saves detention costs ($152/day → $4.50/day); 96-99% appearance rates |
| Root-cause development investment | $5B/yr | Cheaper than enforcement cycles; reduces future border pressure |
| Federal integration program | $3–5B/yr | 6% annual taxpayer return; 47% earnings increase for participants |
| USCIS processing capacity | ~$1–2B/yr | Fee-funded + appropriations; backlog clearance boosts tax revenue |
| For-profit detention phase-out | Net savings | $152/day detention replaced by $4.50/day community alternatives |
| Employer enforcement (DOL + E-Verify) | ~$500M/yr | Fine revenue + back-wage recovery; reduces underground economy |
The Congressional Budget Office scored the 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill (S.744) — the closest legislative analogue to this plan — as follows:
| Metric | CBO Projection |
|---|---|
| GDP increase over 20 years | +3.3% ($1 trillion+) |
| Federal deficit reduction (first decade) | −$197 billion |
| Federal deficit reduction (second decade) | −$700 billion |
| Social Security revenue (next decade) | +$348 billion from immigration |
| New payroll tax revenue from 11M legalized workers | Tens of billions annually — currently paid informally or not at all |
| Visa fee revenue from backlog clearance | $1–3 billion/year from expanded processing volume |
| Border technology investment | $2–4 billion/year (sensors, cameras, drones, AI processing at ports) |
| Net detention savings | $2+ billion/year — $152/day facilities replaced by $4.50/day community alternatives |
Immigration reform is not a cost — it is a fiscal investment with documented returns. The pathway to citizenship alone moves 11 million residents from the underground economy to full tax compliance, Social Security contribution, and economic participation. Undocumented immigrants already paid $96.7 billion in taxes in 2022 under the broken current system (ITEP, 2024) — full legalization expands that base. The CBO's score of the 2013 bill found that every dollar spent on reform was returned multiple times through increased GDP, tax revenue, and reduced social costs. The total annual investment in this plan ($11–15 billion/year across all programs) is offset by detention savings, fine revenue, visa fees, and the massive payroll tax expansion from bringing 11 million workers into the formal economy. Under every major macroeconomic projection, comprehensive immigration reform is net positive for the federal budget.
Implementation is sequenced so that enforcement capacity and legal pathways expand in parallel — ending the cycle of enforcement without adequate legal alternatives.
Immigration is the most contested policy space in American politics. The most common objections are addressed below — each with data, not rhetoric.
"This is amnesty."
Every applicant undergoes a background check, pays back taxes, waits 5 years in conditional status, and is excluded for violent felonies. Amnesty means forgiveness without conditions. This is a structured program with accountability at every step. What we have now — 11 million people living in legal limbo, paying taxes into systems they cannot access — is the actual policy failure.
"Immigrants take American jobs."
The economic evidence is unambiguous: immigrant labor is overwhelmingly complementary, not substitutional. Immigrants contribute 18% of GDP while comprising 14.3% of the population — they produce more than their share. They make up 18.2% of healthcare workers, 29.8% of construction workers, and founded 51% of billion-dollar startups. A 2023 National Bureau of Economic Research study found that immigration to the U.S. between 1990 and 2017 increased wages for native-born workers by 1.7% to 2.6% — because immigrants fill labor shortages and create demand for complementary native-born workers (supervisors, managers, customer-facing roles). The real threat to American wages is not immigrants — it is employer exploitation of undocumented workers with no bargaining power, which suppresses wages for everyone in affected industries. This platform destroys that weapon through criminal employer enforcement: $50,000/worker first offense, criminal charges for repeat offenders, and wage theft recovery regardless of immigration status.
"Asylum seekers don't show up for court."
This is false by a factor of approximately 30. Between FY2013-2017, 92% of asylum seekers appeared in court. With legal representation, the rate reaches 96–99%. The widely cited "3% show-up rate" is a fabrication — not a statistic from any government source. The data is public. This platform corrects the record with evidence in every debate.
"We need a wall."
The majority of undocumented immigrants entered legally and overstayed visas — at airports and ports of entry. A physical barrier between ports does not address this population at all. Most drug interdiction happens at ports of entry, not between them. Technology-first investment at ports of entry is more effective per dollar than any physical barrier, on every metric that matters.
"We can't afford to integrate immigrants."
Language training alone generates a 6% annual taxpayer return. Denmark found language training increases long-term earnings by 47% and decreases social benefit costs by 13% over 10 years (AEA, 2022). The countries that did not invest in integration — Germany's Gastarbeiter program, Sweden's 2015 intake — paid vastly more in social costs decades later. Germany has spent over €20 billion annually on integration since 2015 — catching up on 60 years of neglect. Sweden's immigrant employment gap is the worst in the OECD. Integration is the cheapest immigration policy available — and the most expensive one to skip.
"Amnesty just encourages more illegal immigration."
The 1986 IRCA (Reagan amnesty) legalized 2.7 million people. Unauthorized immigration continued afterward — but not because of legalization. It continued because Congress funded the legalization but never enforced the employer sanctions that were supposed to accompany it. In FY2018–19, zero companies were criminally prosecuted for hiring undocumented workers. The CGP plan is fundamentally different from 1986: it pairs the pathway with criminal employer enforcement ($50,000/worker penalties, officer liability, federal contract debarment), reformed E-Verify, and wage theft crackdowns. The magnet for unauthorized immigration is not amnesty — it is the certainty that American employers will hire undocumented workers with impunity. This plan eliminates that certainty.
"Secure the border first, then talk about pathways."
We agree on border security — and we fund it. The plan includes technology-first border investment: sensors, cameras, drones, AI-assisted processing at ports of entry, and $5 billion/year in root-cause investment in high-emigration countries. But "border security first" as a political strategy means "pathways never" — because the border will never be "secure enough" for those who use it as a precondition for reform. The 2013 Gang of Eight bill included $46 billion in border security AND a pathway — it passed the Senate 68–32 and the CBO scored it as reducing the federal deficit by $197 billion. It died because the House refused to vote on it. The CGP position: border security AND pathways, not OR. Both. Simultaneously. Because they reinforce each other — legal pathways reduce unauthorized crossings by providing an alternative, and enforcement prevents circumvention of the legal system.
"We can't afford immigration reform."
The CBO scored the 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill as adding $1 trillion or more to GDP over 20 years and reducing the federal deficit by $197 billion over the first decade and $700 billion over the second decade. The pathway to citizenship alone generates massive fiscal returns: 11 million residents moving from the underground economy to full tax compliance adds an estimated $348 billion to Social Security over the next decade (CBO projection). Undocumented immigrants already paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022 (ITEP, 2024) — under the current broken system. Full legalization expands that tax base, not shrinks it. The detention phase-out produces net savings: replacing $152/day for-profit facilities with $4.50/day community alternatives saves billions annually. The question is not whether we can afford reform — it is whether we can afford the current system, which costs more and delivers less by every fiscal measure.
| #2 | Taxation | IRS enforcement infrastructure applies to employer wage theft. Back-tax payment plans for pathway participants. $96.7B/yr in tax revenue from undocumented workers expands under full participation. |
| #3 | Housing | Immigration commission levels tied to NHC housing capacity and housing starts. NHC housing available to legal residents and pathway participants. |
| #4 | Education | Free community college and trade school available to legal immigrants and pathway participants. Credential recognition program essential for integration. |
| #13 | Labor & Wages | Agricultural Labor Standards Act. Minimum wage, overtime, and organizing rights for all workers. Employer enforcement and wage theft crackdown protect native-born and immigrant workers equally. |
| #15 | Social Safety Net | Integration program ties to safety net access. Pathway participants transition to full benefit eligibility upon citizenship. |
| #20 | Corporate Power | Employer enforcement provisions. Algorithmic wage coordination in industries relying on exploitable immigrant labor. |
| #22 | Racial Justice | Repeal of New Deal-era racial exclusions in FLSA and NLRA. Birthright citizenship defense. Due process protections against racial profiling in enforcement. |
| Pathway to citizenship? | Yes — 5+ years, clean record, back taxes, 5-year conditional period |
| DACA recipients? | Yes — Immediate permanent residency upon application |
| Agricultural workers? | Yes — Same pathway + Agricultural Labor Standards Act |
| Legal backlog? | 5× judges; eliminate per-country caps; recapture unused visas |
| Asylum system? | 6-month processing standard; universal legal representation |
| Border enforcement? | Technology-first at ports; no wall; $5B/yr root-cause investment |
| Economic immigration? | Add category-based stream; preserve family + diversity allocations |
| Employer enforcement? | Criminal penalties; reformed E-Verify; wage theft crackdown |
| For-profit detention? | Phased out over 3 years; community alternatives as default |
| Integration investment? | Yes — $3–5B/year: language, civic, jobs, credentials |
| Birthright citizenship? | Defended unconditionally — 14th Amendment; no executive override |
| Family detention? | Ended entirely — no child detained for parent's immigration status |
"Immigrants are assets to invest in, not threats to defend against. Every position in this platform flows from this principle. The question is not whether America benefits from immigration — the data is unambiguous. The question is whether we build a system worthy of the people who choose to come here."— The Common Good Party
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