Experts suggest that the U.S. legal immigration policy should prioritize economic benefits.

• Approximately 13.7% of the total U.S. population is made up of immigrants, according to the Census Bureau's estimate.
• According to research by the Cato Institute, only less than 1% of individuals seeking permanent residency in the U.S. are legally allowed to do so.
• There is a disagreement among experts regarding the misalignment between economic requirements and the U.S. immigration policy, which predominantly supports family-based sponsorships.

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. has the highest number of foreign-born residents among all countries, with the Census Bureau estimating that immigrants make up approximately 13.7% of the entire U.S. population.

According to research by the Cato Institute, less than 1% of individuals seeking permanent residency in the U.S. are legally allowed to do so today.

According to Theresa Cardinal Brown, a senior advisor on immigration and border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, most other developed nations in the world have a much higher percentage of their immigration system based on economics.

In the U.S., a majority of green cards, 62.6%, are given to family-sponsored immigrants, while only 21.1% are given to those through employment-based sponsorships, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The Cato Institute estimates that out of the 1,500 new hires in the U.S., only one receives a green card through employment sponsorship programs.

Experts say that the U.S. economy requires reform of the legal immigration system.

According to Brown, the restrictions on the number of annual immigrants were last updated in 1990, when our population was smaller and the types of work we did in this country were different.

Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, stated that he would like to see reforms that encourage more legal immigrants to come to the country because our economy requires them.

The immigration crisis in the U.S. is a complex issue that has been difficult to resolve.