Border Policy Expires: Bipartisan Team Introduces Narrow Immigration Bill.

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a narrow immigration bill aimed at countering an expected influx of migrants at the border when a Covid-era border restriction ends next week. The bill seeks to give the Biden administration more flexibility in how it handles migrants at the border by providing a two-year expulsion authority for migrants who were trying to come to the US illegally without proper documents. The bill includes some exceptions and carveouts for migrants whose lives could be in jeopardy or who could be tortured if they were returned to their home countries. The legislation is not expected to pass before the border policy expires, but it reveals a narrow area of bipartisan support on immigration.