Candidates running for the 2020
Democratic presidential nomination have been uniformly critical of the
immigration policies of U.S. President
Donald Trump, who was elected after promising to crack down on illegal immigration and bolster enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Here is a look at the immigration positions of Trump and the leading Democratic candidates looking to take him on in the November election.
Since entering the
White House in 2017, Trump has moved to end former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects immigrants brought illegally to the
United States as children from deportation.