{"id":3045,"date":"2023-11-12T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2025-06-26T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T23:36:24","slug":"immigration-reform-a-path-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/immigration-reform-a-path-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Reform: A Path Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/image-shadow\/cache\/f97fae247e2e1ca0cc16ae7b7c9f42eb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/image-shadow\/cache\/f97fae247e2e1ca0cc16ae7b7c9f42eb.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Newsletter-collage-300x41.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As sweeping immigration reform is highly unlikely, there are certain targeted reforms that are both urgently needed and potentially achievable; such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>== To protect DREAMers, we propose a new, indefinite \u201cconditional residence status\u201d to DREAMers with protection from deportation, work authorization, and the right to travel abroad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>== State-based Immigration Programs: This proposal would authorize state governors to ask DOL and\/or DHS to approve additional worker petitions to authorize the hiring of immigrants by employers in their respective states<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>== Border Management and Asylum Reform<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>== Improve access to refugee resettlement to the United States and other countries in the Western Hemisphere for those who qualify<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>== Expand other avenues to legal migration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>== Reform asylum for border arrivals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>== Explore demands for both asylum and border reforms that would partially be ameliorated by new immigrant worker programs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>== Build on Current Proposals for Essential Workers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>== Help the healthcare services industry to recruit foreign national workers from countries in the Western Hemisphere for those who qualify<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on these proposals <a href=\"https:\/\/discuss.ilw.com\/articles\/articles\/496802-article-immigration-reform-a-path-forward-by-stephen-yale-loehr-randel-keith-johnson-theresa-cardinal-brown-and-charles-kamasaki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/discuss.ilw.com\/articles\/articles\/496802-article-immigration-reform-a-path-forward-by-stephen-yale-loehr-randel-keith-johnson-theresa-cardinal-brown-and-charles-kamasaki\">see here  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As sweeping immigration reform is highly unlikely, there are certain targeted reforms that are both urgently needed and potentially achievable; 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