Our country needs to maintain a strong economy and meet the challenges of a global marketplace and immigration policy is a significant contributor to these goals. To keep the United States strong and vital, our immigration policy need to address who should be our immigrants of the future and how we handle the illegal immigrants in our country today.

A complete policy on immigration must address the following three issues: how to select those immigrants who will contribute the most to our future economic needs, the need to maintain an international perspective on immigration, and how to handle the current illegal immigration population.