One of the biggest issues for voters heading into this election is illegal

migration along the US-Mexico border.

Here's our colleague Michelle Hackman.

We've been living through a few years of unprecedented numbers of illegal crossings at the southern border and it's been fraying Americans

nerves. It's become basically the top political issue. Actually our own Wall Street

Journal poll showed in February that voters

rank immigration as their top concern even above the economy and inflation.

And why is this issue so important to voters? It's a good question Kate, you know, we've talked

to voters about this and the thing that they say is that they feel like something that

they have seen happening on the border for years is now affecting them personally.

So they really get upset when they start to see large numbers of immigrants, you know,

who don't have homes and are homeless in places like New York City and then

they talk about you know they associate sometimes wrongly immigrants with

also drugs coming across the border which do move separately but voters link in

their heads and they're saying we need to shut down the border and stop it all.

This week President Biden made a move.

He put in place a new policy aimed at deterring illegal border crossings.

The simple truth is, there is a worldwide migrant crisis.

And if the United States doesn't secure our border,

there's no limit to the number of people

may try to come here,

because there's no better place in the planet

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