US-Mexico border wall does little to curb flow of migrants

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Last year, a record 2 million people crossed the US border illegally and 800 people died there. Back in October, the Biden administration announced that construction on the US-Mexico border would resume, a surprising about-face in the middle of an election campaign. The White House also said that direct deportation flights to Venezuela, which had been suspended for years, would restart. Our correspondents report from El Paso, Texas – one of the main gateways into the US.