For decades, Congress has circled the immigration reform debate like an unskilled fisherman in a leaky boat — always casting, never catching, slowly sinking. The late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan gave you a blueprint: fair, pragmatic, enforceable. Her proposals were clear-eyed and courageous. But they were ignored. Not because they lacked merit — but because Congress is broken.
This website is an invitation - an invitation to stop deferring the hard conversations. An invitation to test the waters of serious reform with concrete, modernized legislation built on Jordan’s legacy. It’s also a challenge — to do something, not someday, but now.
What you’ll find here is the Barbara Jordan Immigration Reform Act — a single, unified legislative proposal crafted from the best of her Commission’s work and reimagined after thirty years lying dormant.
It’s built for bipartisan reality — not partisan fantasy. It opens the front door for legal immigration and closes the back door on unlawful entry. It includes serious proposals for DACA recipients, asylum integrity, employment verification, child protection, harboring and more.
If you’re a member of Congress with a better plan-show me.
If you think my draft needs fixing, tell me where.
But if you have no plan at all — then maybe it’s time to borrow Barbara’s.
Doing nothing is not leadership. Doing nothing is the reason our immigration system is broken - just like congress.
Are you going to fix it - yes, or no?
David W. Morgan (85)
Litchfield Park, Arizona