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GWEN IFILL: Tonights outcomes could broaden the definition of winner and loser. There are also major issues hanging in the balance. Tonight, we look at prospects for two of them, first, immigration.

Joining us are two activists intimately on both sides of the issue of who gets to come to the U.S., who gets to stay and who gets sent back.

Brad Botwin is director of Help Save Maryland, a group that wants to tighten the nations borders. And Cristina Jimenez is co-founder of United We Dream, which works on behalf of undocumented immigrants.

Welcome to you both.

Ms. Jimenez, the movement on immigration reform has basically ground to a halt in Congress and at the White House. What would this election do to change that?

CRISTINA JIMENEZ, United We Dream: Well, I think that whats going to be critical here is that whatever the outcomes are for these elections will have a lot of impact for 2016.

So the question is, would Democrats and the president continue to deport people? Will the president take administrative or executive action on immigration, as he promised on June 30, and/or will the Republicans continue to promote the mass deportation agenda, as they did with Mitt Romney and have continued to do so?

GWEN IFILL: Brad Botwin, is it a mass deportation agenda were talking about?

BRAD BOTWIN, Help Save Maryland: I dont believe so.

I think, tonight, we will see the Senate flip to Republican, which is actually a good thing for the immigration issue, because you will have a more logical approach. I think the president and the Democrats in the Senate tried to do effectively another Obamacare for immigration, just a mass bill.

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What the election means for the future of immigration reform