Party Conventions Highlight Growing U.S. Divide on Immigration
A vast divide widens as Clinton tilts left toward a pro-immigration platform and Trump promises a crackdown and mass deportation.
Trump Turns to Familiar Themes in RNC Acceptance Speech
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On the first day of their convention, Democrats heard moving speeches from an 11-year-old American girl worried about her undocumented mother getting deported, a "Dreamer" brought to the country as a child without proper papers and U.S. Representative Luis Gutiérrez, a fiery voice for compassionate treatment of immigrants.
It was a sharp contrast to the Republican convention last week, when three speakers on opening night were American parents who told searing tales of their children who died because of people living in the country illegally. Their dark stories contained appeals for more border control to stop immigrants from pouring into the U.S.