Let's start with context:  Because in the 20th century the US created a vast economic empire extending far beyond our national borders, these "immigrants"--both legal and illegal--have long since been part of our political economy.  It would be good if our immigration laws started by acknowledging this simple fact.  

In the 1980s the importation of illegal immigrants was used deliberately and extensively by American business to destroy the American worker and depress wage levels.  It is pretty much water under the bridge now.  A fair policy would mandate living wages for all workers "citizen" and "non-citican," "legal" and "illegal" to undecut the economic incentives that created the problem in the first place.  Putting the burden on the employers, rather than the workers, is also a good idea, although in truth we must reverse the entire political climate before any of this can even START to happen.  

Energy independence is a good idea.  Indeed, it will happen, whether we try for it or not.  The real problem is: Will we find local, renewable, sustainable sources of energy that will keep us from collapsing back to the early Middle Ages or late Paleolithic?  But Americans are very slow to understand basic arithmetic.  Get this:  Cars--except for the extreme rich--are not part of our future under ANY possible scenerio, so we had better plan a way of life that does not need them.  Ethanol is a dead loss:  It takes about ten calories of petroleum to produce one calory of corn, which in turn produces something like a half a calorie of ethanol.  Worse still, and I fear we will go for it, gassing up our cars with agricultural biomass can only be done by cutting back on food--literally by starving the populace.  And yes, you can grow corn without oil, organically--that was the old, pre-modern way--but in that case the eat or drive problem becomes doubly acute.  Even before climate change sets in, there is not enough land in North America for both.  

I do like the general tenor of your proposals, and hope they can inspire a fundamental rethinking, beyond the happy confines of Left Blogistan.  On that--Good luck!