General Discussion

Freely give out work permits... 12 month or even 60 month VISAs giving permission to work in the USA.

Set up some infrastructure where their income has to go into an account that will trigger an alarm if they stop working for an extended period of time.

And no guaranteed path to citizenship. This has always been what annoys the political "middle"... place citizenship as a reward and the price should be equivalent to what other immigrants pay... and that is time.

A legal immigrant here, who goes through the legal process and becomes a US citizen... (takes years BTW) will have to wait up to 15 years to bring a sibling here... and then they wil have to wait 7-10 years for citizenship.

So in my scenario... an immigrant here on legal status will be eligible for citizenship after 20 years in the country with no long lapses in work history or tax payments.