My immigration solution.

Give every citizen in the US a pass which upon turning 18 years old they could use to allow one person into the country. You get one your entire life and you get it when you sign up for Selective Service. Now you could use your one as you see fit. You could use it to go backpacking in Sweden and fall in love and get married and bring your wife back to Akron. You could use it to sell to a Greek Shipping Baron who would like to be allowed to work out of Houston. You could hold onto it in case you ever meet someone you feel should be allowed in the US. You could donate it to a refuge organization and let someone from East Timor move to the US to pursue a better life. You could use it however you would like, but you only get one.

Then we limit our immigration to political asylum seekers and those people who people in the United States are vouching for. I am sure somewhere in there this idea can be attacked as racist, sexist, discriminatory in some way, but then the current way of doing things could be attacked the same way.