US immigration scheme totters as migrant crisis worsens

Daca provides work permits for young undocumented migrants but is struggling after two years of controversy

• The high cost of becoming legal in the US: $465
  
• Beyond the border: into the wilderness

The fight over immigration has centered recently on one group: tens of thousands of unaccompanied children crossing the US border with Mexico.

When House Republicans passed a $694m border security bill last week , it was accompanied by another bill that would essentially end a program designed to allow up to 1.7 million children of undocumented migrants to stay in the US legally and find jobs.