Title 42 expiration sparks immigration concerns and calls for action.

Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Thom Tillis have proposed a two-year extension of the pandemic-era expulsion authority that allows officials to quickly send migrants out of the United States, in an attempt to prevent an expected influx of border crossings when the policy ends next week. The measure has little chance of advancing in the closely divided Senate, but its emergence this week demonstrates how profoundly partisan gridlock on a broader immigration overhaul has paralyzed Congress. The looming expiration of the pandemic-era policy known as Title 42, which includes the expedited expulsion authority, has long been a part of their strategy, providing a deadline of sorts they hoped would force Congress to act on immigration.