EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION LAW--UNITED STATES---Register all foreign nationals

by James Leonard Park

    Many sides of the immigration debate agree
that citizens of other countries settled in the USA without permission
should be brought out of the shadows and registered with the government.

    The major worry of some advocates for unauthorized immigrants
is that once foreign nationals are registered, they will all be deported.
This now seems impossible, since there are so many million
citizens of other countries living in the USA without permission.
And most of them are law-abiding members of society.

    Of course, there are also millions of foreign citizens
with permission to reside in the USA.
These citizens of other countries have Green Cards
issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
which permit them to live and work in the USA under defined conditions.
They have permission to attend college, visit relatives,
tour the country, or start and maintain businesses.

    And some foreigners have been welcomed as authorized immigrants
who will probably later qualify to become U.S. citizens.

    The new registrants will likely have most of the same rights
as other immigrants who followed the standard rules for immigration.

1. VOLUNTARY REGISTRATION WITHOUT DEPORTATION.

    If the United States of America is going to encourage
at least some foreign nationals to register themselves voluntarily,
a change of law will be required beforehand:
Those who voluntarily come forward to register themselves
with the Department of Homeland Security will not be deported.

    Rather, this registration will grant them at least temporary permission
to continue living and working in the United States.

    Communities of unauthorized persons will quickly learn
whether such a promise not to deport law-abiding non-citizens was real:
When their relatives and friends registered with the U.S. government,
they were permitted to continue living in their homes
and they were permitted to continue working as they had before.

    Most foreign nationals already know the advantages of registration:
They will no longer fear deportation simply for being in the USA.
They will expect better protection from exploitation on the job.
They will have the freedom to call the police when they observe crimes.
They will be able to ask for education or health-care
without fearing that they will be sent back to their homelands.

    When they leave the shadows, they will be able to get better jobs.
With registration they will be granted at least temporary authorization
to live and work in the USA.

    And it will be a positive mark in the record of any foreign national
that he or she came forward to register voluntarily
rather than waiting for law-enforcement to discover them.
Full cooperation with the new registration law
will help them in any future applications to become U.S. citizens.

    In this first phase of the Foreign Nationals Registration Act
—which could be scheduled to last two or three years—
a few million foreign nationals will come out of the shadows.

    Various forms of publicity will help all citizens of other countries
to consider registering themselves
in order to receive the named benefits of registration
and to avoid the punishments for those who delay registering.

    Community-based organizations can help immigrants
of each ethnic group to register themselves
with Homeland Security or with the new National Identity Bureau.

    Another on-line essay suggests details for voluntary registration:
REGISTRATION without DEPORTATION:
Bringing Millions of Foreign Nationals Out of the Shadows.

2. CASH REWARDS FOR VOLUNTARY REGISTRATION.

    The first one million registrations will be the easiest to obtain.
But it might still be cost-effective to offer a cash reward
for each foreign national registered
who was not previously known by the Department of Homeland Security.

    This might be called rewarding unlawful behavior.
And the reward should be structured so that it does not go
to people who might cross the border merely to collect a cash reward.

    Every element of immigration reform must be careful
not to encourage future unauthorized immigration.

    We want to identify and register foreign nationals
who have settled in the USA without permission.
Their registration will include a picture of each person registered
and an address where each person is currently living.

    The address of the foreign national must be a real residential living unit,
not a post-office box, a mail-forwarding service, or the home of a relative.
The registrant must give the location where he or she sleeps.

    In order to make sure that this registrant is actually settled in the USA,
the U.S. Postal Service will be asked to confirm
that this person is receiving mail at this address.
This will eliminate people who recently crossed the border,
perhaps hoping to receive a cash reward and some kind of legal status.

    The officer of Homeland Security who is receiving this registration
will personally visit this place of residence,
finding out who owns the living unit,
who is the registered leaseholder if it is rented, etc.
In addition to confirming that the registrant actually lives at this address,
this officer of the Homeland Security will make certain
that all other persons living at this address
are also registered if they are not U.S. citizens.
This will encourage whole extended families of unauthorized persons
settled in the United States to register at the same time.

    The larger the settled family of unauthorized immigrants,
the greater will be their cash reward for registering.

    And cross-checking will continue indefinitely to make sure
that this address is not listed by an impossibly large number of people.
Registering with the U.S. government means giving the actual place
where each settled foreign national is living at the time of registration.
And ever thereafter, the registered foreign national
will be required to inform Homeland Security
if and when there is any change of residence.

    The amount of the cash incentive for registration
might be between $100 and $1000 per person.
Some research will have to be conducted to decide
which amount of reward would yield at least one million new registrations.

3. VOLUNTARY REGISTRATION TO COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS.

    The new law might be called the Foreign Nationals Registration Act.
It should prohibit automatic deportation of most who register voluntarily.
No guarantee of later citizenship will be offered.
But those who voluntarily register themselves early rather than late
will be given preference when it comes time to decide
just which foreign nationals will be offered pathways to U.S. citizenship.

    Because there are so many millions of citizens of other countries
settled in the USA without permission,
Homeland Security might have to open a number of new offices
specifically for the purpose of registering and certifying the facts
about each unauthorized person who voluntarily comes forward
to be counted among the foreign nationals not previously registered.

    A computer file will be opened for each person who registers.
This will begin with a current picture of the foreign national.
All of the facts that will help distinguish this person
from all other individuals in the national data-base
will be included in this personal Identity File.

    If the National Identity Bureau has already been established,
which will register all persons living in the USA (citizens and non-citizens),
then no special offices will be needed for foreign nationals to register.
They will just register along with all of the rest of us.

    Registration might mean each of us going to our local post office
to have our official picture taken
and to record the basic facts about ourselves.
There are now 320 million people who have a right to live in the USA.
The 10 million (or so) unauthorized persons will be added to this data-base.

    If the National Identity Bureau has not yet been established,
then the Identity File for each foreign national
should be in a format that will easily fit the national data-base.
We will eventually have a national directory including everyone.

    Once foreign nationals have voluntarily registered themselves,
they will no longer fear being discovered and deported.
They will have established an honest relationship with the USA.
They can call the police when law-enforcement is needed.
They will be able to get health-care and education.
They will no longer be exploited by unscrupulous employers,
who use the threat of deportation to keep workers in virtual slavery.

    This registration will include the basic facts about this individual:
Where and when did this person enter the USA?
What citizenship does this person hold?
Who are the other members of the family?
Is this person employed in some legitimate occupation?
Does this person have any children?

    When the United States creates new pathways to citizenship
for unauthorized persons settled in the USA for some years,
those who voluntarily registered at the earliest opportunity
will step ahead of those who waited until the last moment.

    If all other factors are equal,
then the person who voluntarily registered earliest will
have a better chance of earning American citizenship.

4. REGISTRATION BEGAN WITH FOREIGN YOUNG ADULTS.

    The first group of foreign nationals to come out of the shadows
were children and young adults
who were brought into the United States while they were still very young.
This registration was first announced on June 15, 2012.
Many of these DREAMers will be fully integrated into U.S. society
by being offered reasonable pathways to American citizenship.

    Once some immigration reform comes into operation,
it might establish a paradigm for other forms of earned citizenship.
These young people will become naturalized U.S. citizens
if they fulfill prescribed requirements for becoming Americans.

    A few applicants for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)
will not be able to fulfill the requirements
for education or military service.
Some will be convicted of serious crimes,
meaning that they no longer qualify for U.S. citizenship.

    Originally there were about 2 million children and young adults
who would have qualified for DACA.
About 800,000 did apply and were accepted between 2012 and 2017.

    On June 15, 2012, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
announced Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
By administrative decision (in contrast to new legislation),
foreign nationals who were children when they were brought into the USA
(age 15 or below) were no longer subject to immediate deportation
if they were less than 31 years old on June 15, 2012.
They were not prosecuted for the immigration violations of their parents.
And, unless they were convicted of serious crimes,
they were given temporary authorization to work in the USA.
Such two-year authorizations were renewed on a case-by-case basis.

    This "deferred action" did not grant amnesty.
And it did not automatically open a pathway to American citizenship.
Also, after the foreign nationals registered with the U.S. government,
the months under this new status do not count as months 'out of status'.
All further questions of legal residence and possible citizenship
will have to be established by immigration reform at some later time.

    Deciding not to prosecute these foreign nationals settled in the USA
did not encourage additional unauthorized immigration,
because Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals required at least 5 years
of continuous presence in the USA up to and including June 15, 2012.

    In the election of 2016, Republican majorities were established
in both houses of Congress and a Republican President was elected.
This administration tried to end DACA.
Court decisions allowed DACA recipients to renew their registrations.
But this data-base of foreign nationals—gathered in 2012-2017—
might form the basis for the universal registration of all foreign nationals
now settled in the USA without permission.

5. RE-REGISTRATION OF VISITORS
WHO OVERSTAYED THEIR VISAS.

    Perhaps 40% of foreigners now settled in the USA without authorization
originally entered on valid visas issued in their home countries.
But instead of returning home as originally agreed,
they stayed in the USA—fading into the general population.

    The U.S. government has lost track these visa-overstayers.
A National Identity Bureau would be the most direct way
to keep track of everyone living in the USA.
But short of creating that national directory,
foreign nationals who once had valid visas could be encouraged
to come forward to register themselves once again.
They should be assured that they would not be immediately deported.

    We must not create a new loop-hole for unauthorized immigration.
Once the Foreign Nationals Registration Act has been implemented,
new visas issued to visitors must be followed carefully
in order to prevent new applicants from overstaying their visas
and thereafter re-registering with the U.S. government.
Should law-abiding foreign nationals who once held valid visas
be allowed to remain in the USA under the same provisions
that allow most foreign nationals already settled in America to remain?
Immigration reform will decide how to tighten the visa process.

    Because all who once had valid visas
are already known to the State Department,
it should be relatively simple to re-register them.
We will just make certain of their identities
and get their new addresses.
If necessary, new photographs should be taken.

    Whether visa-overstayers will be offered pathways to U.S. citizenship
will be decided later,
depending on what new pathways are created by immigration law
and depending on the specific facts of each citizen of another country
who once held a visa to reside temporarily in the United States.

6. REGISTRATION FOR HEALTH-CARE OR INCOME-SUPPORT.

    The Foreign Nationals Registration Act
could require registration of all foreign families
when they apply for tax-supported health-care.
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 could be modified to include foreign nationals
if they agree to provide proper identification, have their pictures taken,
& give all the other information required for their Identity Files.

    Emergency rooms do not turn away patients who need medical care.
But when the patients are foreign nationals,
registration could be required as long as deportation would not result.

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a DACA list
of foreign nationals brought into the USA while they were still children.
A file was created for each person who came forward to register,
with the promise that the registered foreign national would not be deported.
They were given two-year permission to work or study in the USA,
which could be renewed if no problems arose.

    The same format for registration could be used for foreign nationals
who are applying for health-care supported by the taxpayers.
Their pictures would be taken, their names and addresses recorded,
and all of the other facts required for complete identification,
such as the country of citizenship.

    Because health-care is so costly for individuals,
this carrot will encourage many who were formerly in the shadows
to come forward to register themselves
—once again with the promise that they will not be immediately deported
merely because they had no authorization to live in the United States.

    Rather, they will begin receiving all appropriate health-care,
at the expense of the taxpayers if there is no other way of paying.

    Likewise, the United States has various systems of income-support
for people who do not have enough assets or income to support themselves.
At present, most foreign nationals do not qualify for these programs.

    But if they agree to be registered,
they could be included in all such systems
that are intended to provide income for the poorest people living in the USA.

    Once again, registration would not guarantee a pathway to citizenship.
But these families would receive the health-care and income-support
while they build records that might qualify them for citizenship
and while their cases are examined in greater detail.

    Over a period of ten years,
this incentive could be expected to gather a few million more people
into the system of registration of all people living in the USA.
And because health-care and income-support are already generous enough,
applicants who apply to take advantage of medical care and cash-support
should not receive any additional cash rewards.

7. PROPER IDENTIFICATION WHEN APPLYING FOR WORK.

    Any person who attempts to get a job in the USA
should be expected to provide proper identification.
All employers must fill out Employment Eligibility Verification Forms (I-9)
for each new person hired.
These forms specify what documentation will be accepted
as proof of U.S. citizenship and/or authorization to work in the USA.

    All systems used in the past have proven to have serious flaws
—E-Verify, Real ID, etc.—
primarily because it is so easy to obtain false documents.
A simple National Identity File should replace all such failed attempts.

    And as one possible step in that direction,
an Electronic Work Authorization system could be created,
which would allow prospective employers to use their computers
to check the identity of each applicant.
If the applicant is authorized to live and work in the USA,
his or her picture will appear first in his or her Identity File,
which will be maintained by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
This Electronic Work Authorization will make it simple
to discover if the applicant is authorized to work in the USA.

    This Electronic Work Authorization system
would be created by Homeland Security,
using the data behind the Green-Card system.
But the plastic cards themselves
would eventually be replaced by Electronic Work Authorization.
During some period of transition, both plastic Green Cards
and the Electronic Work Authorization system would operate together.

    The Foreign Nationals Registration Act
will provide a reasonable way for unauthorized foreign nationals
to come forward and register themselves with the U.S. government.
Once registered, these foreign nationals have temporary permission
to live and work in the USA.
And they will be added to the data-base
in the Electronic Work Authorization system.

    Authorization to hold a legitimate job in the USA
will be a powerful incentive to register.
Foreign nationals previously forced to work in the underground economy
will be able to apply for any jobs available
once they are registered with the U.S. government.

    When all employers are required to compare their current employees
with either the Electronic Work Authorization system
or the even-more-comprehensive National Identity Bureau,
then millions of unauthorized workers will be identified.

    Correct names and Social Security Numbers will be recorded
in new Identity Files for each person
(if such registration has not already been completed).
Once again, the authorizing legislation should prohibit instant deportation.
Even some who did not register themselves voluntarily
might ultimately be permitted to become U.S. citizens.

    The question of citizenship will be postponed until later.
Once we have the pictures, names, & addresses of the millions
who were previously unauthorized,
we can make wise decisions about possible pathways to citizenship.
Could these foreign nationals become good American citizens?
Now registered, will they follow all local, state, & federal laws?

    This new work-place enforcement will probably register
about half of the 10 million foreign nationals not previously registered.
The workers and all their family members will register together.
It will take considerable time to record and organize all of this new data,
which is another reason for delaying immediate deportation
of foreign nationals settled in the USA without permission.

    Ultimately, the following should become our work-place principle:
All jobs will be reserved for citizens and registered foreign nationals.
If foreign nationals refuse to register,
having their pictures taken,
their names and addresses recorded,
then their employment should be terminated as soon as reasonable.
Once it is consistently and comprehensively applied,
allowing only authorized persons to work
should encourage some foreign nationals to return to their homelands
and discourage others from ever emigrating to the USA in search of work.

    See another on-line essay:
If They Cannot Work, They Will Not Come:
And Many Will Return to Their Homelands:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/CY-WORK.html

    Work-place registration must very carefully avoid
encouraging citizens of other countries to enter the USA without authorization
in hope of registering and then seeking jobs.
The Foreign Nationals Registration Act seeks foreign nationals
who have already settled in the United States.
How long should they have lived in the USA?
Did they apply for visas while they were still living in their homelands?
Did they receive visas permitting them to enter the USA?
Did they overstay their visas, and if so, for how long?
We know that they have violated the laws of immigration,
but have they followed all other laws?

    Foreign nationals who have recently come out of the shadows
will have the full facts about themselves available to possible employers.
And employers might decide to hire employees who are U.S. citizens
and foreign nationals who have permanent resident status
rather than people who have only temporary authorization
to live and work in the USA.

    Some of the newly-registered will be permitted to stay in the USA.
Others will be given careful assistance to move back to their homelands.

8. REGISTER EVERYONE FOUND IN WORK-PLACE REVIEWS.

    When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
conducts a review of any place of employment,
the officers should create a new File for each unregistered worker.
This Identity File will begin with a picture of the worker,
together with all of the other data presented by that worker.
Sometimes these reviews are done by examining paperwork in the office.
Are the I-9 files in order?
These documents are intended to identify workers
with authorization to work in the USA.
But, like all paper documents, they are easy to falsify.
Perhaps the employer can show an I-9 for each employee,
but what percentage of these are based on fake documents?

    These new Identity Files will be created in a format
that will make them easy to integrate into a national identity data-base
when such a national directory is created.

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement generally picks work-places
where it suspects that large numbers of foreign nationals will be found.
Most will merely be registered and photographed.
Only those who refuse to cooperate with the ICE officers
will be taken into custody so that they can be properly identified.

    If necessary, authorizing legislation can give ICE explicit permission
to gather information about U.S. citizens as well as foreign nationals.

    And immigrants newly registered as a result of a work-place review
will not receive any of the rewards mentioned earlier in this essay.
They could have registered voluntarily
for cash rewards, work-authorization, health-care, etc.
but they did not take advantage of those opportunities.

    However, once they have been identified in their work-places,
they can be officially registered with Homeland Security.

9. LOCAL LAW-ENFORCEMENT
WILL CHECK CITIZENSHIP STATUS.

    When conducting their normal police operations,
local police officers and state police should never investigate
the citizenship of any persons they encounter.

    Local and state police are not the primary enforcers of immigration laws.
That responsibility rests with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

    But when any person has been arrested for a serious crime,
then the full identity of that person should be included in the arrest record.
Most criminals in America are U.S. citizens.
But some who are arrested will be citizens of other countries
—perhaps living in the USA without permission.

    If the arrested persons hold valid Green Cards,
which show that they have official authorization to live and work in the USA,
the fact of their arrest—especially if this leads to trial and conviction—
should be communicated to the Department of Homeland Security,
which might decide to revoke the work authorization of convicted criminals.

    But the experience of Arizona's SB 1070 shows how
NOT to include immigration violations with other law-enforcement:
Minor violations of law do not warrant investigation of immigration status.

    Because all persons questioned by the police
can be required to identify themselves,
the police sometimes do discover false documents
in the normal process of identifying the persons being questioned.

    The possession of false documents it itself a crime,
which usually will result in the holder being taken into custody.

    If persons validly taken into custody refuse to identify themselves,
they should be held until they say who they are
or until such time as others come forward to identify them.

    When arrest results in a new registration of a foreign national,
there will be no cash reward, no new income-support,
no work-authorization, & perhaps no additional health-care.
We do not want to reward criminal behavior.

10. MANDATORY REGISTRATION WHEN ARRESTED.

    As an additional law-enforcement tool,
whenever unauthorized persons are arrested for any crime,
a computer File will be opened for them
in the Department of Homeland Security.

    This will include a current picture of the registrant
and all other details that can be collected by law-enforcement.
This personal Identity File will include references to the arrest record,
but the complete police file will be kept by the local police
—as they do with all other persons who are arrested.
They will simply transmit the basic identity-information
to the new national data-base maintained by Homeland Security.

    This Identity File will include all facts
required by the National Identity Bureau.

    Once the government has created a File for this unauthorized person
who has also been caught committing some non-immigration crime,
then other branches of law-enforcement will be able to identify him or her
if and when this person violates any law in the future.

    This additional federal registration will help deal with street gangs
that happen to be made up mostly of foreign nationals
who have no permission to be present in the USA.
Each time they are arrested for other crimes,
they will be properly identified using their National Identity Files
or other registration methods created by Homeland Security.
And even if they are deported,
their identities will be kept forever in the U.S. national data-base.
This will discourage them from re-entering the USA later.

    The mere fact of being registered with the National Identity Bureau
as a citizen of another country without permission to be in the USA
will not lead to automatic repatriation to the country of citizenship.
But deportation will remain a right of the U.S. government.
And each additional time this person is arrested and convicted
will be added to the list in their National Identity Files.
The more arrests and convictions, the less likelihood that this individual
will ever be permitted to become a naturalized U.S. citizen.

    New registrations of foreign nationals
because of arrests for other crimes
will add a few thousand new people to the list each year.
After the first ten years of the Foreign Nationals Registration Act,
how many new persons will be identified and registered
as a result of arrests for crimes
that have nothing to do with immigration?

11. AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION
OF ALL FOREIGN NATIONALS IN PRISON.

    At any given time, there are about 2 million men and women
in American prisons and jails.
A certain percentage of these are citizens of other countries.
When established, the National Identity Bureau
will have an individual File for everyone—including persons in prison.
If the NIB has not yet been established,
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will keep a registry
of all foreign nationals in any sort of jails or prisons
anywhere in the USA or its territories.

    Because the prison population is constantly changing
—prisoners being released and new prisoners being locked up—
prison registration of foreign nationals will probably register
about one million different individuals over the course of ten years.

Convicted criminals should receive no cash reward for registration.
Rather, convicted criminals who are citizens of other countries
should probably be assigned a high priority for deportation.
Only if they are not scheduled for deportation
should they receive any form of work-authorization.

    The criminal record of foreign nationals will weigh heavily against
their ever being permitted to earn citizenship in the USA.
But if the correctional system really works as intended,
some former inmates might be able to prove
that they have been rehabilitated.

    A certain number of years outside of prison
without committing any additional crimes could be used to argue
that a reformed criminal might become a good U.S. citizen.

    The automatic registration of all persons who have been in prison,
including their pictures and other biometric details
such as DNA profile and fingerprints,
will help to follow them for their rest of their lives,
no matter where they live.

12. MANDATORY REGISTRATION
OF ALL NOT PREVIOUSLY LISTED.

    When the measures already used do not result in complete registration,
then other law-enforcement methods must be employed
to get the last few un-registered foreign nationals onto the list.
How do we get those last one million pictures and names?

    The Department of Homeland Security will have to try various methods
and then evaluate them to see which techniques do actually result in
more registrations with the lowest cost for each new person registered.

    Perhaps this last effort will come at the end of a ten-year process,
which has registered millions of former unauthorized persons.
Those who remain unregistered will know that they are in a minority.
And they might have to be threatened with immediate deportation
when discovered if they do not come forward to register themselves.

     The Foreign Nationals Registration Act will probably have to be revised
based on the facts discovered in the first few years of operation.
Experience will show what works and what does not work.
We will know the impact on continuing unauthorized immigration.
What new methods will be tried to identify and register
the last one million foreigners living in the USA without permission?

    Other immigration laws will be created to provide pathways to citizenship.
Some new registrants will be able to earn U.S. citizenship.
Others will not qualify.

    But even if foreign nationals must be repatriated,
this will be done with whole families as units,
rather than individuals torn away from their families.
They will be given reasonable time to wind up their affairs in the USA.
And they will be helped to re-establish themselves in their homelands.

    More discussion of orderly repatriation will be found here:
"Comprehensive Repatriation of Citizens of Other Countries and their Families":
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/CY-DEPOR.html

CONCLUSION

    This combination of carrots and sticks should result in
registering all 10 million unauthorized persons
settled in the USA at the beginning of the process.
A few more will continue to settle in the USA without permission.
Some might be permitted to register themselves as described above,
but most will probably be returned to their homelands,
where they will be permitted to apply to emigrate to the USA
in exactly the same ways now possible for any other person on Earth.

    This new registration should correct ineffective immigration controls
—not create a new form of immigration.

    Once essentially all foreign nationals living in the USA are registered,
then the question of citizenship can be raised:
Which of these people would make good citizens of the USA?

RESULT:

If the procedures outlined in this chapter are put into immigration law,
then a large part of the unregistered population of foreign nationals
will be identified and registered with the U.S. government.
The Foreign Nationals Registration Act
might become the first major law of immigration reform.
It will make clear to all the world
that no one will remain anonymous in the USA.
This fact of universal registration will encourage some foreign nationals
to return voluntarily to their homelands
because they can no longer live in the shadows in America.
And all citizens of other countries
who once dreamed of moving to America even without permission
will re-think their chances of finding a place in the USA
if they have no official permission to be in America.

Coupled with this universal registration,
new methods for authorized immigration will be created.
And foreign nationals who can show
they could become good citizens of the USA
will be welcomed into the American family.

This exploration of just how to gather the names and addresses
of all foreign nationals settled in the USA
has become Chapter 4 of Orderly Immigration: Creating a New America:
"Register All Foreign Nationals: Carrots & Sticks".

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AUTHOR:

    James Park is himself an immigrant to the United States.
He was a child when his whole family was admitted to the USA in 1949,
So there was no way to know ahead of time what he might contribute.
But each family member has proven to be good for America.

    Much more about him will be found on his website:
James Leonard Park—Free Library

    Some of these shelves contain other essays related to immigration:

I am an Immigrant

Immigration Problems and Solutions:
Keeping the Debate Constructive

Immigration Reform:
A Range of Options

25 Million Foreign Nationals in the USA:
How Many Will Stay?

Earning American Citizenship:
Be Above Average

Children of Foreign Nationals:
New Pathways to Citizenship

End Deportation of Persons Likely to Qualify for
a Pathway to Citizenship under Immigration Reform

Registration without Deportation:
Bringing Millions of Foreign Nationals Out of the Shadows

Creating New Pathways to American Citizenship

Born in the USA:
The Easy Way to Become a U.S. Citizen

Comprehensive Repatriation of Citizens of other Countries and their Families

Register All Foreign Nationals:
Carrots & Sticks

National Identity File:
Directory USA

Created January 11, 2011; revised 1-12-2011; 1-13-2011; 1-14-2011; 1-18-2011; 1-22-2011; 3-10-2011;
5-26-2011; 5-27-2011; 9-29-2011; 10-1-2011; 10-25-2011; 11-30-2011; 4-18-2012; 6-19-2012; 6-29-2012;
7-11-2013; 7-30-2013; 8-7-2013; 8-26-2013; 10-2-2013; 10-24-2013;
9-4-2014; 4-4-2016; 12-2-2016; 9-29-2017; 5-20-2019; 11-19-2020;

FURTHER READING:

Structuring and Implementing an Immigration Legalization Program:
Registration as the First Step
This 34-page policy brief from the Migration Policy Institute explores how to register
12 million unauthorized persons now living in the USA.

Morton Memo Explained:
Factors for and against Deportation
This Internet presentation explores the 20 factors once used in deciding
priorities for prosecution possibly leading to deportation.

REGISTER ALL FOREIGN NATIONALS:

CARROTS & STICKS

7. PROPER IDENTIFICATION WHEN APPLYING FOR WORK.

8. REGISTER EVERYONE FOUND IN WORK-PLACE REVIEWS.

REGISTER ALL FOREIGN NATIONALS:

CARROTS & STICKS

1. VOLUNTARY REGISTRATION WITHOUT DEPORTATION.

RESULT: