Immigration Law

THE TEN FOR TEN PLAN

By Greg Siskind

Alan Nash, a Houston lawyer, has developed a very interesting and innovative white paper laying out a plan for immigration reform. While I am not in full agreement with some of the plan, it does add ideas to the discussion. According to Nash,

The heart of the ?10 for 10? plan is this: Any non-citizen in the U.S. would have the right to acquire permanent immigrant status by paying, in each year for a 10 year period, the greater of $1,000 indexed for inflation or 10% of his adjusted gross income30 (which would be salary for most persons).

Other provisions of the plan include

- issuance of tamper-proof identity cards to all immigrants
- interim immigrant status during the ten year probationary period based on the payments described above
- elimination of cash payments by employers to employees
- anyone who commits a crime or who is not enrolled in the 10 for 10 program or otherwise legally in the US would be deportable
- employers would be required to go through a verification process for all hired employees
- US citizens would have a "right of first refusal" for all positions to be held by immigrants (this is similar to a labor certification test)
- a guest worker program would be put in place that contains the "right of first refusal" test
- a portion of the funds from the fines would go to supporting vocational training programs for US workers
- border security provisions would be included that are consistent with the Federal Secure Fence Act.

Take a look and post your thoughts in the comments. Download the_10_for_10_plan.pdf

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).