Biden, Trumps dueling border visits will encapsulate a building election clash [Video]

President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger Donald Trump both head to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday in a sign of how central immigration has become to the 2024 election and how much both candidates want to use it to their advantage.Video below: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre previews Biden’s border visitEach has chosen an optimal location from which to underscore his respective points.Biden, who wants to spotlight how Republicans tanked a bipartisan border security deal on Trump’s orders, will go to the Rio Grande Valley city of Brownsville. For nine years, this was the busiest corridor for illegal crossings, but illegal crossings there have dropped sharply in recent months.Trump, for his part, wants to continue his attacks on Biden and keep up his dialed-up rhetoric after saying migrants were poisoning the blood of Americans. He will do so from Eagle Pass, roughly 325 miles northwest …