Texas Employers for Immigration Reform (TEIR)

Principles for Immigration Reform

We support comprehensive immigration reform that:

• Facilitates the employment of essential workers by U.S. companies and organizations through a market-driven system of temporary workers.
• Addresses the economic needs for both future and undocumented workers already in the United States.
• Strengthens national security by providing for the screening of foreign workers and creating a disincentive for illegal immigration.
• Creates an immigration system that functions efficiently for employers, workers, and government agencies.
• Upholds the rule of law by establishing a clear, sensible immigration system that is efficiently and vigorously enforced.
• Includes new, proven enforcement regimes that do not penalize employers for their past inability to comply with a broken system.
• Acknowledges the $17.7 billion contribution that immigrant workers make to the Texas economy.
• Allows hard-working, tax-paying undocumented workers to earn legal status.
• Does not displace U.S. workers with foreign workers.
• Ensures that all workers enjoy the same labor law protections.
• Unites, rather than divides, employers and immigrant workers.