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On May 11, 2023, Representative Sharice Davids urged the Biden Administration to work across the aisle to help pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. More than one year ago, Davids said the Title 42 public health order should remain until a bipartisan plan was reached. Now that the Covid-19 national emergency is ending, the Administration will terminate the order this Thursday, May 11, without a long-term solution in place.

In March 2022, the Biden Administration warned of increased migration flows immediately following the end of Title 42. Yet, in the last year, the Administration has taken insufficient action to find a comprehensive, bipartisan solution. Now, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is preparing for as many as 10,000 migrants to cross the southern border each day after the order ends. This would almost double the daily average from this past March.

Read more on Davids' push for the Biden Administration to work with both parties on immigration reform:

Fox News: "House Democrat demands Mayorkas, Biden work with GOP on border plan after Title 42 ends"

"A member of Congress from President Biden's own party is demanding that he and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas join Republicans at the negotiating table to find a bipartisan solution on immigration as the government's Title 42 expulsion policy comes to an end.

Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., warned that the expected onslaught of people trying to cross the border illegally after Title 42 ends could exacerbate the "humanitarian and refugee crisis" if nothing is done to mitigate it.

"As the President has decided to lift the [Title 42] order this week, we now face a doubling of illegal crossings at our southern border by some estimates, exacerbating the current humanitarian and refugee crisis," Davids wrote in a letter addressed to Mayorkas.

Her letter said any plan to help solve the issues at the southern border would have to have the support of both the Democrat-controlled Senate and the Republican-held House. Davids pointed out it will be a top issue in her chamber soon, as the GOP weighs its comprehensive immigration and border bill.

She called for a plan that would both secure the border and provide a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients already in the U.S. and people who served in the Armed Forces.

Davids previously sounded the alarm on the border crisis in April of last year, when the Biden administration had earlier moved to lift Title 42. The policy gives border agents vast authority to turn migrants away on contact in order to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The expected end of the policy this week has forced federal officials to scramble to deal with the increase to what Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) says is already an average of 2,000 border crossings a day for the last two weeks, in the McAllen, Texas, area alone."

Original source can be found here.