WHAT IT CHANGES
4 changes. Anything underneath one of them is supporting detail, not another change.
Control the border and fix legal immigration in the same bill
Enough judges and officers to decide a case in weeks. And more people admitted legally, not fewer — chosen by what they intend to build rather than by lottery.
Deport people who commit serious violent crimes
Real convictions, real due process, and a definition narrow enough that it can't quietly expand later.
End the indiscriminate raids
Enforcement aimed at public safety, not at making whole neighborhoods afraid to go to work.
A path for the people already here
Register, pass a background check, pay taxes and a penalty, wait the years, stay clean. Then residency, then citizenship. That isn't amnesty — amnesty means forgetting. This is a line a person can actually stand in.
ON THE WORRY THAT THIS MEANS SUPPORTING MILLIONS INDEFINITELYIt's the opposite. Undocumented immigrants already paid $96.7 billion in taxes in 2022, including $25.7 billion into Social Security they are barred from ever collecting, and federal law has excluded them from Medicaid, Medicare, and food assistance since 1996. Bringing people onto the books means they file and owe income tax like everyone else, in full, and can be audited like everyone else. The point of the line isn't generosity — it's that people already here and already working should be paying in the same way you do.
Every previous attempt died the same way: one side got its half and the other half never came.
THE BARGAIN
Nobody has to lose for the other side to win. That is the whole point.
A border that finally works, an end to lottery-based admission, and removal of genuinely dangerous people.
Millions of established residents out of the shadows and onto a road to citizenship, and an end to enforcement by terror.