Borders and immigration: Congressional candidates agree change is needed, but they're split on specifics

For decades, few issues in national politics have been as hotly debated as the federal government’s handling of immigration, particularly crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border. This is particularly true this election cycle, animated by the rhetoric between presidential candidates Donald Trump, whose hard-line measures on the border were derided by Democrats as draconian, and President Joe Biden, under whose administration illegal border crossings have broken records. At a debate Thursday, Trump said Biden “could be a convicted felon as soon as he gets out of office,” for, among other reasons,...