President-elect Donald Trump made the border and immigration a key focus of his campaign, and promised to conduct mass deportations.

Immigration was a major theme of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, where he pledged a mass deportation. Polls show he still won many votes from Latino Americans.

Trump has said he would move thousands of troops currently stationed overseas to the southern border of the U.S. He has also said he would deploy the U.S. Navy to impose a blockade of fentanyl and fentanyl precursor chemicals from entering the country.

Border security was once a top concern, but falling illegal crossings and concerns around abortion appear to have shifted opinion.

Proposition 314, known as the "Secure the Border Act", seeks to prevent illegal border crossings through Mexico's six ports to Arizona.

If a crackdown really does come to pass, it could result in at least some closures of hotels currently sheltering migrants. However, Dandapani did not see these potential closures as a particularly big problem for the industry but rather as something that could help fix New York's supply-and-demand imbalance.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will retake the White House with ambitious plans for broad import tariffs, immigration restrictions and additional tax cuts that analysts see delivering a short-term boost to the economy but also larger budget deficits,

Build the Wall” was Donald Trump's rally cry in 2016, and he acted on his promise by tapping military budgets for hundreds of miles of border wall with Mexico. “Mass Deportation” was the buzzword that energized supporters for his White House bid in 2024.

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.

Tuesday's election saw significant laws and regulations passed on the state level through various ballot measures.

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

Arizona voters are set to decide whether to let local police arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the state from Mexico.