The issue of migration is taking center stage in the United States in the run-up to November’s presidential elections. This is as the number of migrants arriving in the US reached a record high at the end of last year. While political battle lines on border policies between Republicans and Democrats are well established in Washington, volunteers helping migrants trying to cross the border are losing hope that there is a political will to solve the problem on the ground. President Biden has failed to get Congress to pass legislation that addresses the migration crisis at the US southern border. Why has it been so difficult to strike a deal? DW correspondent Benjamin Alvarez Gruber reports from the US-Mexican border.

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