AP’s Valerie Gonzalez reports from Starr County, Texas after speaking with voters on Tuesday. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

Proposition 314 would make it a state crime to cross the Arizona border unlawfully and allow local police to arrest migrants.

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.

Immigration and security at the U.S.-Mexico border have remained pivotal voting issues for many Americans participating in the 2024 elections. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez breaks down how voters in border towns feel as Election Day continues.

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.

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.

Trump's plans include mass deportations of millions of people, expanding the border wall and ending birthright citizenship

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

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