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Build an immigration system with lawful pathways, fast adjudication, worker protections, and border enforcement tied to due process and labor-market needs.
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Republican mainstream politics in 2025-2026 has emphasized restriction, enforcement, deportation, and tighter temporary-worker rules, continuing a pattern visible when most Senate Republicans voted, in February and again in May 2024, to block the bipartisan Border Act of 2024 (S. 4361, negotiated by Sens. Lankford, Sinema, and Murphy), even though the bill paired new asylum-processing capacity with border-enforcement authority Republicans had long requested. Democratic mainstream politics has emphasized Dreamers, humanitarian protection, family pathways, and a path to status, while often failing to build enough adjudication and local-service capacity when migration rises. The Innovation Party's delta is capacity plus accountability: expand lawful channels where the country needs them, enforce labor and border rules credibly, and make decisions fast enough that neither side can use backlog chaos as proof of its worldview.
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