'These principles reflect our deeply rooted values as a nation.'
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**PRESS RELEASE**For Immediate Release
Contact: Dan Gordon , 617-651-0841
March 5, 2024

**New Immigration Principles Can Light the Way Forward**  

**WASHINGTON, D.C.** - Reinforce American values of welcome,
compassion, and honoring hard work. Provide for safety and security for
Americans and our communities as well as for migrants. Honor
well-established law and recognize the need for legal paths and
reforms.    

These are the themes of the Forum's "A Better Way Forward: 2024
Immigration Principles," released today with a video from President and
CEO Jennie Murray.    

"These principles reflect our deeply rooted values as a nation," 

**Murray said**. "They must and can guide us even amid the rhetoric and
politics of an election year.  

"The world is watching. Americans want leaders who will work together on
real, lasting solutions that combine security and compassion.
We need this leadership now, not sometime after the election.  

"In the midst of global migration challenges, the United States must
continue to lead. A conversation that centers on these principles will
help American workers and businesses, strengthen our communities and
allow all of us to thrive."  

A Better Way Forward: 2024 Immigration Principles [Watch the video here
]:  

* Show compassion and justice to longtime residents, including Dreamers,
by allowing them an opportunity to earn lawful status and
citizenship.   

* Continue our moral leadership in the world as a welcoming and
compassionate nation that offers refuge to the persecuted.    

* Honor the human dignity of all people through our words and
actions.   

* Address the need for safety and security on the border and in our
communities. Promote community trust and safety by focusing immigration
enforcement on threats to public safety and national security and
preserving federal leadership in setting immigration enforcement
policy.   

* Enable fair and orderly legal immigration that continues to solidify
our global economic leadership. Modernize laws to reduce backlogs and
improve work visa programs for current and future workers.   

* Defend the longstanding constitutional principle of birthright
citizenship.  

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