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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is getting help from two of North Carolina’s House Democrats in pushing for extension of a policy that allowed the government to send migrants away from the U.S. border.

On Friday morning, Reps. Don Davis and Wiley Nickel, Democrats from North Carolina, announced they have cosponsored a bill to extend Title 42. It’s a House bill that mirrors legislation Tillis is behind in the Senate that extends Title 42 for two years and outside the purview of a public health emergency.

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Davis and Nickel were joined by Reps. Jared Goldman, a Democrat from Maine, Juan Ciscomani, a Republican from Arizona, Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican from Pennsylvania, David Valadao, a Republican from California, and Zach Nunn, a Republican from Iowa.

“With Title 42 set to expire, the time for decisive action at the southern border is now,” Nickel said in a statement. “While the administration announced several short-term steps, this is too little too late and Congress must act.”

Nickel said the bill allows time to secure the border and enact more meaningful, long-term reforms to the “overburdened immigration system.”