Immigration & Border Security
Policies addressing legal and illegal immigration, border enforcement, asylum processes, and pathways to citizenship.
Immigration is about who can come to the U.S. and who gets to stay. It covers border security, visas, and paths to become a citizen.
Wants to help people already here get a legal path to stay. Supports letting in more people.
Wants stronger borders and fewer people coming in. Supports sending back those here without papers.
Officials grouped by where they land on this issue.
Progressive4682
Estimated from republican party platform
Estimated from democrat party platform
Supports stricter border enforcement, building the border wall, reducing illegal immigration, and merit-based legal immigration.
Advocates for securing the southern border, ending catch-and-release, and enforcing existing immigration laws.
Champions strict border security including physical barriers, increased border patrol, and visa enforcement.
Supports strong border security measures, increased enforcement, and merit-based immigration policies.
Supports strict border security and immigration enforcement.
Supports border security and immigration enforcement.
Strongly supports border wall construction, strict enforcement, and opposes amnesty for undocumented immigrants.
Strongly supports border security, border wall construction, and strict immigration enforcement.
Centrist / Mixed402
Supports a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants while also backing border security measures and DACA protections.
Supports comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship and protections for Dreamers.
Supports comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship and humane treatment of immigrants.
Supports comprehensive immigration reform with both border security and a pathway to citizenship.
Supports comprehensive immigration reform with both border security and a path to citizenship.
Estimated from independent party platform
Supports comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship and practical border security measures.
Supports comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship and reasonable security measures.
Supports comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship and humane border policies.
Supports comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship and reasonable border security measures.
Conservative3380
Opposes current immigration enforcement approaches, advocating for more balanced reform.
Critical of immigration policies that separate families or limit legal immigration pathways.
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