Ours is a culture based on the nuclear family and that is the social unit most in need of protection from the demographic time bomb whose ticking grows ever louder. We need to reduce the H-1B to a three year visa that cannot be renewed. The H-1B cap should be scrapped outright and consigned to the dust bin of history where it belongs. Create a Blanket H which could be applied for directly at US Consulates much as it is now possible to apply for the Blanket L visa. If necessary, reduce the number of refugees that the INS takes in while increasing our foreign aid program designed to increase living standards abroad.
Intentions can never be an effective substitute for a policy that works.
Those who would rise up in angry protest against any attempt to repeal the family fourth preference must be asked whether its preservation is the best way to advance the concept of family unity, albeit on an extended basis. If it is not, and it is not, then it should and must go. Much of this is controversial and all will doubtless be subjected to spirited debate. Whether these suggestions can withstand such scrutiny or fail under the withering criticism is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that the next INS Commissioner cannot afford to delay in inviting all Americans to join the national conversation that we must, but do not now, have.