Biden and Trump make duelling visits to US-Mexico border

Summary

1. US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are making competing trips to the US-Mexico border today in a clash of schedules
2. Immigration is one of the hottest issues in this year's presidential election and both Biden and Trump will be hoping to win over voters
3. The president will visit Brownsville in Texas, while hundreds of miles west his rival Trump is visiting Eagle Pass
4. Biden - who's on course for a rematch with Trump in November's election - said this week he "didn't know... my good friend apparently is going" when he planned the trip
5. The number of people crossing the border into the US has hit record highs under Biden - and both Republicans and Democrats have expressed unhappiness