Immigration is one of U.S. voters’ top concerns, particularly among Republicans. Former U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to conduct mass deportations of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and has spread incendiary rhetoric about Haitians, Puerto Ricans, Palestinians, and other nonwhite communities.

In November 1994, immigrants and their families found themselves under siege as California voters overwhelmingly passed into law Proposition 187, a ballot initiative that sought to deny basic social services—such as healthcare and education—to undocumented immigrants and their families.

Both campaigns have made immigration a top issue in the 2024 election with former President Trump making the migrant crisis a centerpiece of his run and said he would carry out the biggest deportation event in American history.

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N.Y.-17 candidates Mike Lawler and Democrat Mondaire Jones discussed immigration on the final day of campaigning.

The top issues of the campaign were playing out in the Philadelphia suburbs on Tuesday, as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump battled for Pennsylvania's crucial 19 electoral votes. Philadelphia’s suburban counties,

Donald Trump described the United States as an “occupied country,” pointing to both undocumented and legal migrants as he pledged Monday to “rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered.

Arizona voters are set to decide whether to let local police arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the state from Mexico.

Both candidates have focused their message in the final days of the race on immigration — an issue that has been a top concern for Americans from the beginning.

Donald Trump’s immigration plans may mean international students choose other countries, and many aspiring immigrants could be out of luck.