Older Immigrants

Migration to the US should be harder for children and for people with the capability for biological reproduction. One way of achieving this goal would be to allow only immigrants who are no longer able to reproduce through natural means to qualify more easily for permanent residency. This would apply to post menopausal women, men who have had permanent vasectomies, or any individual who has otherwise become sterilized. Such immigrants would also need to promise to not seek to bear children through any other means.

Younger Immigrants

Potential immigrants of child-bearing age (or younger) would face higher standards than potential immigrants without reproductive abilities. For example, potential immigrants of child-bearing age would be required to meet higher English language fluency standards, provide more in-demand job skills, be healthier, and/or perhaps meet other standards. Immigrants who are capable of bearing children, but who promise not to, should be placed higher within this category’s admittance list.

Penalties for Violating Promise to Not Reproduce

Immigrant parents who violate their promise to not bear children would be fined $5,000 for each child plus an additional fine of $10 per day from the time of the child’s birth until the child reaches 20 years of age, or until the child leaves the country, whichever comes first. The daily $10 penalty could be avoided entirely by moving the child or promising to move the child to another country within 5 years of the birth. If the promise is not kept, this daily $10 fee would be charged retroactively and doubled as a penalty. In addition, the regular $10 fee would continue to accrue until the child leaves the country or until the child reaches 20 years of age. Once out of the country, an application for the child to immigrate back into the country could be filed and the normal immigration procedures would need to be followed. The child will not be forced out of the country. After the child reaches the age of 20 and has remained in the country, all fines having been paid, no further penalties would be assessed. The child’s provisional legal status (or provisional citizenship) in effect since birth would be changed to permanent legal status or citizenship.

Any immigrant who had promised not to bear children may choose to adopt children without facing any of these financial penalties.

An immigrant filtration system such as this would help reduce many of the larger, more permanent, social evolutionary forces that often cause many societal problems.

All political jurisdictions, especially sovereign countries, but also states, provinces, or even cities, should be allowed to set up criteria (so long as it does not involve the use of ethnicity or gender) for determining which immigrants to allow to enter and live inside, and which to reject. For example, criminal history should be an acceptable parameter to use through which to filter immigrants.

There should also be a questionnaire and statement of principles that immigrants (and even natural-born citizens upon their reaching the age of majority) be required to fill out and sign so that this could serve as an additional measure by which to ‘screen’ people so as to help ensure that only people with ‘safe’ beliefs are admitted into the country.

As a general rule, total permanent immigration numbers into the United States from all countries by people of child-bearing age or younger should be limited to an average of about one-tenth of one percent of the population per year. This amounts to just over 300,000 permanent immigrants per year or almost 1,000 people per day.

In addition, a limit of two times this amount should be set for people who are no longer capable of reproduction or who have promised not to reproduce.