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Immigration laws don't need to be reformed, they need to be scrapped entirely. They are completely unconstitutional, the federal government has no business regulating immigration in the first place. The Constitution allows the feds to regulate naturalization only, not immigration. This is no mere oversight - review your Declaration of Independence and one of the complaints the colonialists had against King George was his attempts to limit, control and regulate immigration into North America. The Founders *wanted* that the federal government should have no say about immigration one way or the other.

That leaves us with the 9th and 10th amendments as our only guides for how to deal with immigration, and that puts it squarely into the hands of the state governments (and other, more local jurisdictions).

It is worth observing that the Founders never once passed a single law restricting immigration, and indeed we didn't get any laws restricting immigration until very late in the 19th century, long after all the Founders were dead and buried. That is evidence enough of the correctness of the notion they opposed Federal action on immigration.

We have, however, the additional question today of whether the 14th amendment would impose limits on the state governments to act against immigration in the same way the federal government can not act, but it speaks specifically of citizens so probably the states are still ok to take their own actions to stop immigration as they see fit.

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