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The article states that U.S. real estate mogul and 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump released a policy paper in mid-August 2015 in which he presented details to his calls for the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and an end to the policy of granting citizenship to children born to foreign citizens. The article discusses opposition to Trump's plan by U.S. senator and presidential candidate Lindsey Graham and immigration groups. The article also discusses campaign appearances by Trump in New Hampshire and Iowa.

The article discusses potential changes to the U.S. immigration law following a bipartisan U.S. Senate hearing that proposed a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. It addresses calls to strengthen defense at the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent further illegal immigration, speculates over support from the U.S. House of Representatives, and discusses the administration of work permits.

This article examines the fate of shepherds who come to the U.S. to work with a special visa. The shepherds can stay in the country for a full year which many other immigrant workers may not. When jobs are lost they must return home and are offered no routes towards citizenship. An immigration overhaul could change all that. Under the plan, shepherds would be allowed to apply for a green card after three years of working full time.

The article reports that the technology industry is pushing for legislation that would allow highly-skilled foreign workers to remain in the United States. Half of all technology graduates are from outside the U.S., and small quotas on visas and green cards make it difficult for all of them to stay after they have completed their training. Companies say that without these workers their progress is slowed while the skills they learned in America are put to use in their native countries.

Discusses Americans who renounce their citizenship. Personal accounts; The list of people who have denounced citizenship that gets published in the Federal Register; Reasons why people denounce citizenship; Retired member of Congress, Sam Gibbons, a Florida Democrat, who sponsored a bill to publicly identify such people.