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Immigration policy continues to be a flashpoint in U.S. politics. The fate of the “Dreamers,” young people brought into the United States illegally by their parents, is up in the air, with their future clouded by ongoing court battles and a last-ditch effort in Congress to grant them permanent residency. President Trump has been unable to secure funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border that he has called essential to securing the nation’s borders. Federal immigration agents under Trump have taken a more aggressive stance than under the previous administration in removing people living illegally in the United States, but so-called sanctuary cities are resisting cooperating with those efforts.