Reaffirming the commitment of the House of Representatives to preserve and expand pathways to citizenship.

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives—

(1) that a fair, efficient, and humane United States immigration system must include—

(A) pathways to citizenship for the millions of undocumented, long-term residents of the United States who are the Nation’s family members, friends, and neighbors;

(B) humanitarian protection pathways that welcome with dignity those who are seeking safety in the United States, including by providing broad and meaningful access to asylum, upholding the Nation’s domestic and international legal obligations to provide refuge to those in need; and

(C) expanded legal pathways for family and employment immigration, recognizing that family unity and strengthened protections for all workers in the United States are foundations of thriving communities for all;

(2) that a fair, efficient, and humane United States immigration system must address—

(A) the militarized immigration enforcement system that expands mass surveillance, deputizes State and local law enforcement, and allows private corporations to profit from the arrest, detention, and deportation of the Nation’s families, friends, and neighbors;

(B) all barriers to family unity, including arbitrary 3- and 10-year bars that force United States citizens and mixed-status families to separate from their loved ones;

(C) all measures that criminalize and restrict access to humanitarian protection, including limits that violate the obligations of the United States under the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1984 Convention Against Torture;

(D) arbitrary caps on visas, including country-based limits, which block open access to legal pathways and create decades-long wait times;

(E) barriers to protections for all working people in the United States, including the current system’s reliance on exploitative, temporary visas that bar immigrants from changing employers, preserving family unity, and adjusting their status;

(F) bars on access to services and benefits for all residents of the United States, which do not promote thriving and healthy communities for all; and

(G) barriers faced by communities that have not been fairly and consistently served by the current immigration system, including but not limited to children, people of color, people with disabilities, and people fleeing violence; and

(3) that Congress must act swiftly to update and overhaul the United States immigration system to uphold human rights and constitutional protections, and the Nation’s democracy.