Cities along the U.S.-Mexico border are setting in motion humanitarian efforts including emergency shelter, food, and transportation services ahead of an expected dramatic increase in the number of asylum-seekers. That's as pandemic-era immigration restrictions are set to expire this week. Title 42, a public health rule in place since March 2020, has been used to deter more than 2.5 million migrants and will expire Wednesday. Congressman Bob Latta is concerned with what it is going to do to a border that is already strained.

With just a few months left in office, Senator Rob Portman is trying to get some legislation passed before he goes.   One is the Border Patrol Enhancement Act,  which would raise the pay of border patrol agents to be closer to other federal agents and plus increase the total number of agents to over 20 thousand.  The bill also would create a border patrol reserve, which would have around 25 hundred people in it.  With the record number of people crossing the border, Portman says he would like to see this done on a bipartisan bases.

President Biden is looking at lifting the health order Title 42, which allows the United States to deny entry to immigrants during the COVID outbreak. Portman says around half of the unlawful immigrants were turned away because of Title 42. He wants the Biden administration to reconsider lifting the order and come up with a plan to deal with the illegal immigrants and drugs that cross the Southern border.

U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance spoke to voters about his ideas if he gets elected to represent Ohio in Washington D.C.