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-- Limit the family reunification policy to the spouse, children, parents and siblings of a U.S. citizen;

-- Resist nativist attempts to cut legal immigration and instead increase it from about 1 million annually to 3 million -- which is still less than 1 percent of the total U.S. population;

-- Apply asylum laws equally so that brown-skinned refugees from Honduras have the same shot as light-skinned refugees from Syria;

-- Secure the border not with a 12th-century wall but with cutting-edge surveillance equipment, tunnel detection and improved roads;

-- Deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border sparingly, and only to support Border Patrol agents;

-- Continue to deport those in the country illegally but preserve discretion to allow some of the undocumented to stay;

-- Create a path to earned legal status (not U.S. citizenship) for illegal immigrants who have lived here for at least 10 years and pass background checks;

-- Give permanent legal status to the estimated 700,000 recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in exchange for one year of community service;

-- Ban benefits for legalized immigrants and their children (no welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, etc.);

-- Allow the legalized to become U.S. citizens, as long as they put in the effort and the process isn't automatic;

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