US President Joe Biden has mostly avoided speaking about immigration and the southern United States border over the past year.
Critics argue that Biden has done little to change the harsh tactics of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
Biden did halt construction of the border wall, but beyond that little has changed.
The US continues to use the pandemic as a reason to keep out migrants, and most are still forced to remain in Mexico while they wait to apply for US asylum
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from McAllen in Texas, on the Mexican border.
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