Here’s what I would demand:
1. A path to citizenship for all current illegal aliens. If it needs to be easier for Dreamers, so be it.
2. Money for better treatment for refugees at the border. The current system is a national disgrace.
3. No decrease in the number of legal immigrants. Demographically and fiscally speaking, reducing legal immigration makes no sense.
4. No withdrawal from NAFTA. No elaboration is required.
Here’s what I would be willing to give up:
1. Go ahead and build the wall. Sure, it’s wasteful and stupid, but it doesn’t do that much harm. Think of it as a big public works program.
2. Make the legal immigration quotas more skills-oriented. We have the right to take only the economic refugees that we want. That would include agricultural workers, for obvious reasons.
3. More money for enforcement, apart from the wall. If the system as a whole is fair, there’s nothing wrong with enforcing it.
Will anything like this really happen? I’m not holding my breath.