Also, if we temporarily stop immigration, it would force both parties to work something out quickly to open our borders back up.

If you keep randomly shutting things down and back up, nobody would want to come such an unstable country, where a simple regime-change every 4 years can turn everything upside down and inside out.

The more US becomes immigration-unfriendly, the more global businesses will shift to other countries, which is one of the few soft-powers we in America have over international affairs - the most powerful companies are headquarted in USA. And we will lose that.

Instead, we should make immigration for streamlined and logical.