Is the best solution to the problems plaguing the US immigration system to export nearly all immigrants and start over?

Immigration was one of the key issues in last year's American presidential election, as the Republican candidate and now "President" Donald Trump suggested to deport nearly all immigrants. His supporters seemed to agree with him, but let us look at why it is not a good idea.

Firstly, it is an unrealistic proposal. Immigrants make up an estimated 13.3% of the entire US population. How would one deport such a massive amount of people? Aside from that, it would also be a major setback for the American economy, with a large portion of workers suddenly missing. Even just deporting all illegal immigrants would be a problem; on the one hand, because they work in jobs that no one else wants to do, and on the other because they are underpaid, thus creating an uncomfortable situation for rich businessmen like Donald Trump himself, having to actually pay his workers accordingly for their work.
Secondly, immigrants are not only Muslims or Latinos, but literally everybody that is not Native American. One cannot target specific, "newer" groups of immigrants but leave out the rest because oneself belongs to this rest.
Lastly, what even are the problems that immigrants cause? Depending on their heritage, they are often accused of certain crimes, for example selling drugs or even being terrorists. Or maybe the problem is just that they allegedly steal jobs from "real" (=white American-born) Americans. This is not the case.

In 2017, one would like to assume that these stereotypes would have been debunked, but sadly, that is not the case. All I can say is that the deportation of about 40 million immigrants is not the solution to any problem at all.

- Esther Doumen

(Author's note: Please bear with me. I refuse to call that Cheeto spork by the title he is utterly undeserving of)