This week on Scripps News Reports, we explain the facts and the laws that govern immigration to the U.S., investigate what life is like along the border and hear from everyday voters about their immigration concerns.
We learn more about Texas' Operation Lone Star, the state's own border security effort. What are the objectives and costs of those policy choices? How does the effort affect the local ecosystem, or the sustainability of local businesses?
We hear from immigrants about the routes they take to America, the processes they go through when they meet the U.S. Border Patrol and the long journey that still awaits them once they make it to the U.S.
And we analyze the immigration policies of the two leading presidential candidates: President Biden has supported a pathway to citizenship for migrants, expanded health care benefits to DACA recipients and made it easier for immigrants married to citizens to get their own citizenship. Former President Trump supports mass deportations, has tried to end the DACA program and has called for an end to automatic citizenship for children of immigrant parents who are born in the U.S.
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