I support raising current levels of
legal immigration at least back to where they were before Trump took office, as well as raising the refugee limit as well to pre-Trump levels. Perhaps it is my cosmopolitan background as I spent my childhood living overseas, but it would not alarm me to see first generation immigrants (especially from Africa and the Islamic world) ultimately reach about a fifth of the overall population of the United States. In fact, I want that to happen. I think we as a society can certainly benefit from high levels of (legal) immigration as we have in the past.
At the same time, I also support implementing a high-tech virtual border wall over areas of the southern border where a physical wall makes no practical sense (in fact, even tearing down Trump's border wall in rural areas where it currently stands -it works best in urban settings), among other measures to secure the border.
So think of an updated version of the
2013 immigration reform bill.
