It doesn ' t really specify a mechanism or time scale for forgiveness , does it ? Seems like a stretch to make assumptions about the impacts of a mostly undefined policy . <| sep |> Blaming our problems on ' Mexicans ' is scapegoatingI am blaming much of our income gap problem on the country ' s population growing from 220 million to 320 million in less than 40 years . The number of lower skilltrade workers introduced grew faster than the demand , causing a wage stagnation that will not end until the supply of labor reduces compared to the size of the economy . The majority of our growth is from 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd generation immigrants . If we had introduced 6 million new doctors , doctors income would have dropped , but we didn ' t . We brought in people that could be quickly trained to be plumbers , carpenters , factory workers , service workers , mechanics , landscapers , truck drivers , etc . Of course the economy grows in GDP with immigration , adding 100 million people means we need more of everything , but the GPU growing does not mean the average citizen is better off . Massive uncontrolled immigration has destroyed the middle and lower middle incomes in America . Japan is not growing much in population or GDP , but they are growing in GDP per capita , which has translated to salaries growing faster than the US . The workers are doing better even as the economy stagnate . I don ' t want to be Japan and close off immigration , but we could shoot for something closer to Australia . Australia incomes are doing great even with mass immigration numbers . Australia has a vigorous targeted immigration strategy . 28 % of their population are immigrants , but the immigrants per capita earnings exceed citizens born in Australia . You have to have skills they need . The PM of Australia stated two weeks ago if a person comes into the country by boat without being invited they lose any chance of ever becoming a citizen . When they catch people they put them in a camp on a remote island until they go home or somebody else takes them . As an Island the ocean is their wallIt ' s not about good or bad people , it is about an incredible oversupply of workers that don ' t require college degrees to get a job in their trade . It ' s no wonder that is the group that Trump appealed to , they live all over America . PS Now it is reaching into higher skilled jobs Software engineers will tell you what happens when you use the work Visa process to bring in a ton of qualified but lower paid programmers to compete for their jobs and incomes .