As Biden and Trump both visit the border, how do their immigration policies compare?

President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump will both visit the USborder on Thursday in an attempt to seize the narrative around immigration ahead of their presidential match-up later this year.

The duelling visits by the two presumptive nominees follow a record number of undocumented migrants entering the country in December and an influx of those migrants into Democratic-run cities.

Mr Trump, who is due to visit the migrant hotspot of Eagle Pass, is likely to use the backdrop of the troubled border town to accuse the Biden administration of failing to protect the border while offering his vision for a draconian immigration policy that would see mass deportations.

Republicans, particularly Mr Trump, have long used immigration as a cudgel to attack the Biden administration – even going so far as to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, homeland security secretary, by the smallest of margins in the House – 214-213.

Mr Biden, meanwhile, has accused Republicans of blocking a border deal that would address many of the issues they have long complained about at the behest of Mr Trump. He is due to meet with US Border Patrol agents, law enforcement, and local leaders, according to the White House.

The border is set to be a key issue at the general election in November, so how do the policies of both candidates compare?

Mr Trump used the imagined threat of a migrant invasion to propel him to the White House in 2016 — promising to build a wall that stretches the entire length of the border and force Mexico to pay for it. He appears to be following the same playbook in his second re-election bid.

The GOP frontrunner is plotting a draconian expansion of his previous anti-immigrant agenda, building on the policies that President