The topic of immigration was a prevalent and polarizing issue in the 2010s and early 2020s being heavily discussed in relation to new policies like the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Trump administrations plans to build a border wall, featuring prominently in national election cycles in both 2016 and 2018, to even how immigration should be handled during a global pandemic. This study utilized a content analysis of the images and text of news articles from four major news outlets to determine how the issue of immigration was framed, and who was represented in news content about immigration. This study also conducted an experiment which sought to determine what effects that representation and the most dominant types of framing could have on audiences.It was found in the content analysis that news about immigration during this time spiked around 2018 and heavily featured stories of immigrants from Central America and Mexico. Additionally, Latino men were overrepresented as immigrants compared to real world statistics. The content analysis also identified several trends in how immigration was framed in both images and text. Physical threat frames were the most dominant type of frame in immigration articles and were often present in images associated with immigration stories even when the story’s text did not contain a physical threat frame. The experiment showed that article framing could moderate the relationship between political ideology and support for a specific pro-immigration policy. The results of the experiment indicate that this moderation is primarily due to how article framing influences audience’s perceived humanization of immigrants. The experiment did not find any significant results indicating that audience’s perceived humanization of immigrants or support for specific policy is impacted by the nationality of the immigrants profiled in the news article.