If a bill that eventually leads to citizenship is bound to fail, then we need to create a new immigrant category.

I would support a category that allows us the same rights as those that hold permanent residency. However, this category would have the following differences:

(1) One cannot sponsor family.
(2) One will not automatically qualify for citizenship in five years as in the regular permanent residency. If one wants to be a citizenship, then they would have to use of the current available routes.

The 6 year W-1 visa, and the non-immigrant visa, as proposed by the GOP, are debilitating and discriminatory in too many ways. For one, we can't work in places where permanent residency or indefinite work authorization is required. This new category should make us eligible for those jobs. In other words, this would be very a DACA policy that grants legal status and indefinite work authorization (instead of the 2 year one).


...but I do wish that we would just be given green cards, but that would be engaging in wishful thinking.