border crisis

U.S. immigration reform was last passed by Congress in 1996. Now, the ending of Title 42 emergency health powers that allowed border officials to deny migrants entry has created what many have described as a humanitarian crisis at the border. A bipartisan coalition of U.S. House members believe their new legislation addresses the challenges. One of the bill’s co-authors is Grand Rapids Democrat, Hillary Scholten

U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimates that it will encounter more than two million migrants crossing the southern boarder by the end of the…