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WE THE PEOPLE PLATFORM — PILLAR 12: IMMIGRATION ARCHITECTURE
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Download type:  Pillar
Group ID:       P12
Generated:      May 12, 2026
Documents:      9

DESCRIPTION
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All documents tagged with Pillar 12 (Immigration Architecture). Contains 9
documents spanning multiple folders.

DOCUMENTS INCLUDED
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  1. Non-Citizens And Platform Eligibility
     05_Analytical_Framing/05_Non_Citizens_And_Platform_Eligibility.docx
     Best for: Policy analysts, immigration policy professionals, mixed-status
     families, and reviewers asking how the platform treats the approximately
     47 million non-citizens living in the United States. Anyone who notices
     that 'universal' has not been precisely defined for this population. Maps
     the platform's commitments against five non-citizen categories: legal
     permanent residents (12.5 million green card holders), long-term work
     visa holders (1-2 million), student visa holders, temporary protected
     status / asylum pending / refugee status (several million), and
     unauthorized immigrants (10-12 million). Works through each platform
     commitment by category, identifies the major design choices the platform
     must make, and analyzes the failure modes (pay-but-don't-receive,
     documentation friction, fear-based non-engagement under chilling-effect
     immigration rules, state-level variability). Mixed-status families are
     addressed with the principle of individual-by-individual eligibility
     rather than monolithic family treatment. Three approaches for
     unauthorized workers are outlined explicitly with their trade-offs. The
     federal income tax architecture (wage floor exemption) likely applies to
     all filers regardless of citizenship status. The Founding Stake is
     reasonably citizenship-restricted. The most consequential unresolved
     choice is healthcare access for unauthorized workers, which would
     otherwise produce ~$24 billion per year in pay-but-don't-receive
     contributions. Eight explicit Open Questions document remaining work.
     When to read: Read after the Manifesto and Federal Program Integration
     Plan when you need to understand whether the platform's universal claims
     actually apply universally. Critical reading for immigration-focused
     organizations evaluating whether to support the platform politically and
     for mixed-status families concerned about how the platform would affect
     them.

  2. Open Issues Registry
     05_Analytical_Framing/05_Open_Issues_Registry.docx
     What it does: Consolidates everything the platform is aware of but has
     not fully resolved. Includes (a) issues mitigated in v2.24 (Manifesto
     cover tagline; healthcare per-capita timeline; TOC rate language); (b)
     open issues awaiting resolution (healthcare contribution rate has four
     different values across the package; wealth surcharge architecture has
     three versions; FFIA shows zero net new revenue from "modified income tax
     architecture"; Adjacent Pillars Under Development uses outdated framing);
     (c) topics aware of but needing more research (Federal Reserve / monetary
     policy interaction; housing market interaction; wage floor disemployment
     quantification; healthcare cost reduction decomposition; Sovereign Fund 4
     percent return scenario; intersectional pay gap analysis;
     climate-omission strategic reasoning); (d) acknowledged scope omissions
     (long-term care, hearing aids, comprehensive climate policy, housing
     supply, immigration); (e) acknowledged process limitations (lead author
     not credentialed economist; External Reviews folder contains only AI
     reviews; mathematical models not independently audited). When to read:
     Read after the Manifesto if you want to know what the platform's authors
     know about the platform's limitations. The registry is offered in the
     same spirit as the Provenance document — transparency over polish.

  3. Immigration Architecture Substantiation (Pillar Twelve)
     05_Analytical_Framing/05_Immigration_Architecture_Substantiation.docx
     Best for: Anyone wanting the substantiation behind Pillar Twelve, the
     platform's twelfth pillar (Immigration Architecture) added in v3.6.0.
     Documents the case, architecture (federal general revenue + user fees;
     ~$30-50B/yr gross commitment; positive net fiscal impact ~$1T over 20
     years per CBO scoring of comparable proposals), six components (pathway
     to legal status, legal immigration modernization, asylum and refugee
     processing, workforce visa reform, integration support, border management
     modernization), 15-year transition, comparison with prior comprehensive
     reform proposals (S.744 of 2013; U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021),
     comparison with international approaches, explicit acknowledgment of
     political and substantive tensions, and open issues for credentialed
     external review. v3.6.0 completes the v4.0.0 four-pillar architecture
     proposal sequence.

  4. We The People Overview Slideshow — Option A (Light Update; Twelve Pillars)
     06_Presentation_Materials/06_We_The_People_Overview_OptionA_Light.pptx
     Best for: Anyone wanting the lightest of three slideshow alternatives
     produced for comparison. Option A preserves the original 16-slide deck
     structure and adds one new slide for the four pillars added in 2026
     (P9-P12). (The original sixteen-slide deck has been removed in v3.7.5;
     Option A supersedes it for the same audience.) See also Options B and C.

  5. We The People Overview Slideshow — Option A (Light Update; PDF)
     06_Presentation_Materials/06_We_The_People_Overview_OptionA_Light.pdf
     Best for: Same content as the Option A PowerPoint, in PDF format for
     distribution and viewing without PowerPoint. Auto-generated from the pptx
     file via headless soffice export.

  6. We The People Overview Slideshow — Option B (Medium Restructure; Twelve Pillars by Funding)
     06_Presentation_Materials/06_We_The_People_Overview_OptionB_Medium.pptx
     Best for: Anyone wanting an overview slideshow that organizes the
     twelve-pillar architecture by funding mechanism. Option B is the medium
     restructure of three slideshow alternatives produced for comparison;
     preserves the original three-problems-share-one-solution framing and the
     three primary pillars detail; replaces the existing slide 8 with three
     new slides showing all twelve pillars organized by funding architecture
     (twelve-pillar overview, five payroll-funded pillars with P6+P8 combined
     into one cell, four non-payroll mechanisms).

  7. We The People Overview Slideshow — Option B (Medium Restructure; PDF)
     06_Presentation_Materials/06_We_The_People_Overview_OptionB_Medium.pdf
     Best for: Same content as the Option B PowerPoint, in PDF format.
     Auto-generated from the pptx file via headless soffice export.

  8. We The People Overview Slideshow — Option C (Full Rebuild; Life-Stage Organization)
     06_Presentation_Materials/06_We_The_People_Overview_OptionC_LifeStage.pptx
     Best for: Anyone wanting an overview slideshow that organizes the
     twelve-pillar architecture by life stage. Option C is the full rebuild of
     three slideshow alternatives produced for comparison; preserves the
     original three-problems-share-one-solution framing and the three primary
     pillars detail; replaces the existing slide 8 with five new life-stage
     slides showing how all twelve pillars map to childhood, working age,
     retirement and aging, with cross-cutting infrastructure pillars on the
     overview slide and a final funding-architecture summary slide.

  9. We The People Overview Slideshow — Option C (Full Rebuild; PDF)
     06_Presentation_Materials/06_We_The_People_Overview_OptionC_LifeStage.pdf
     Best for: Same content as the Option C PowerPoint, in PDF format.
     Auto-generated from the pptx file via headless soffice export.

FORMAT
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Each document is included in two formats:
  - .docx — original Word document (best for editing or full-fidelity reading)
  - .html — self-contained browser-viewable version (works on any device)

The .html files include the platform's flag background, formatting, and
a navigation link back to the platform index (if you have the rest of the
package). They open in any web browser by double-clicking.

ABOUT THE PLATFORM
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The We The People Platform is a federal-policy reform proposal package
authored by Jason Robertson. The full platform consists of 109 documents
across 12 policy pillars. This ZIP is a curated subset.

Full platform: https://wethepeopleplatform.com
(or the platform_index.html page from the full package)

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