America's Voice - organization summary

We want our elected leaders in Washington to stop talking about the broken immigration system and start putting forward a practical solution that legalizes the undocumented workforce and fixes the holes in our immigration policy that created this problem in the first place.

The mission of America's Voice is to realize the promise of workable and humane comprehensive immigration reform. Our goal is to build the public support and create the political momentum for reforms that will transform a dysfunctional immigration system that does not work into a regulatory system that does.

Our vision of reform includes elements, which implemented simultaneously, will lead to a 21st century immigration system that honors legal immigration, reduces illegal immigration, recognizes the contributions of hard-working immigrant families, preserves the importance of family reunification, respects the rights of all to fair proceedings and humane treatment, and levels the playing field for law-abiding employers and workers in the United States.

A workable immigration reform package that can succeed would combine the following elements, which work together to meet these fundamental goals:
* A program that requires those here illegally to get on the right side of the law by passing background checks, studying English, paying taxes, and working towards full U.S. citizenship
* Reunification of families separated by outdated immigration laws
* A commission to regulate the future flow of employment-based immigration so that workers' rights are protected and honest businesses are able to grow
* A crackdown on unscrupulous employers who hire undocumented workers and undermine their law-abiding competitors
* Smart and professional border enforcement, conducted in consultation with border communities
* Reform of current immigration enforcement practices, including the right to fair proceedings, humane treatment of immigration detainees, and respect for community policing
* Reduction of migration pressures in sending countries over time

Calls those supporting immigration reduction anti-immigrant, racist extremists.