California has positioned itself as a haven for both documented and undocumented migrants, but in some ways, life in Texas isn't much different, a detailed poll of immigrant attitudes shows. There's only so much one state can do.
Millions of immigrants those here legally as well as unauthorized migrants find their lives constrained by the complex, sometimes irrational, twists of U.S. immigration law.
Jamaica native Winsome Pendergrass is part of a surge of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean. She supports solidarity among Black Americans, but has been shunned in return.