This compares with FY'95 family-sponsored immigration of 596,300. Other recommended reforms would reduce the ceiling for employment-sponsored immigration, end unskilled immigration, end the visa lottery and set a pierceable ceiling on refugee and asylum admissions. It recommended a new rationalization of U.S. refugee policy that focussed on true refugees in a post-Cold War environment. The commissioners also supported efforts to design a system to cope with possible large-scale migration destined for the United States through offshore sites offering temporary protection. The final report to be presented in September 1997 was in part leaked to the press in August.
Recommendations call for a radical restructuring of management of immigration.
In its final report the Commission brought together all of its earlier recommendations for improved controls against illegal immigration, including a national system of secure worker identification, for restructured and reduced legal immigration, and for a revised refugee and asylum admission system and reiterated a call for a new immigration policy that will be in accord with the nation's best interests. Most important, from FAIR's perspective, is the fact that the Commission again reiterated the urgent need for reform of the structure for legal immigration. This is crucial to reversing the trend of rising immigration that the nation has experienced ever since the 1965 adoption of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The Commission also called for the nation to heed the needs of its immigrant population and to increase efforts to assimilate them into the society. FAIR sees the Commission's focus on reducing both illegal and legal immigration as critical to assuring that the governmental bureaucracy is capable of performing its mission and for incorporating immigrants into our society.