For South Carolina’s Black communities, immigration issues blur party lines

In the state's most diverse district, some recoil at the US border closing while others wrestle with impacts of undocumented migration

Republicans claim that their election year rhetoric about immigration has a new audience in the Black community. North Charleston's newfound racial complexity tests that claim.

The working-class city of about 120,000 is one of the most strongly Democratic in South Carolina, more so than even its larger, storied neighbor to its south. It has also long been split almost evenly between Black and white residents. Immigration has been adding a third dimension to what was a two-way relationship.