As I read through your discussion posts, I want to raise an issue that you must consider in your final paper, which is viability or feasibility of your proposals for reform. A central reason US immigration policy is structured as it is is due to questions of what can actually be adopted as law (with public opinion and interest group support/opposition playing key roles) and/or what can feasibly be implemented within budgetary, physical human, or other constraints. If you have not listened to all the Panopto recordings, you should do so before your write your final paper, as I discuss viability and other aspects of existing policy or proposed policy in those recordings. 

So you need to justify your discussion of your proposed reforms NOT ONLY in terms of how it will be an improvement on existing policy in terms of goals, but also in terms of viability. If there were no constraints, most of us could “fix” immigration policy tomorrow. So in addition to discussing the status quo of your area of immigration policy, you need to address what kinds of reforms have been tried before in this area, why certain changes have not previously been possible, which stakeholders have supported or opposed the kind of reform you are proposing and how your proposal will change the equation. On the basis of considering these questions of viability, you should discuss why your proposed reform IS viable.