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Eliminating any immigration, legal or otherwise was the former administrations plan.
When you cut legal immigration from 1,183,505 in 2016 to projected number of 601,660 in 2021 you will have unmet demand.
Add to that the reduction in support for Central American economies you will end up with more illegal immigration.
Pay one way or another.
Sorry, but without immigration the US economy will struggle to grow and when you spend 4 years hacking the existing system to death, it will take a while to get it to work again.
Stuart Anderson wrote in Forbes that "Immigrants and their children contributed more than one-half of workforce growth in the past two decades. The economy expands with growth in the labor force and its productivity. Due to the retirement of baby boomers and population aging in general, immigration will play an even larger role in workforce growth going forward than it has in the past. Absent offsetting increases in productivity growth, less immigration will, therefore, translate directly into slower gross domestic product growth.”
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