IV 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1112 

Denouncing the Biden administration’s immigration policies. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 5, 2024 

Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas submitted the following resolution; which was 

referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined 

by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 

within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Denouncing the Biden administration’s immigration policies. 

Whereas President Joe Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas have created the worst border 

security crisis in the Nation’s history; 

Whereas President Biden, beginning on day one of his administration, systematically dismantled effective border security measures and interior immigration enforcement; 

Whereas the Biden administration’s open-borders policies 

have incentivized 9,500,000 illegal aliens from all around 

the world, including criminal aliens and suspected terrorists, to arrive at the southwest border; 


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Whereas the Biden administration has allowed at least 

6,400,000 illegal aliens from the southwest border to 

travel to American communities; 

Whereas current immigration law allows for the United 

States to enter into asylum cooperative agreements with 

other countries to allow for the removal of certain aliens 

seeking asylum in the United States; 

Whereas asylum cooperative agreements provide the United 

States with another tool to reduce the incentives for illegal immigration; 

Whereas asylum cooperative agreements increase cooperation 

with United States allies in the Western Hemisphere and 

around the world and promote shared responsibility; 

Whereas the previous administration announced asylum cooperative agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala, and 

Honduras; 

Whereas the Biden administration suspended and terminated 

these asylum cooperative agreements as part of its openborders agenda that has encouraged mass illegal immigration to the southwest border; 

Whereas the border wall aids the Border Patrol in its mission 

to ‘‘detect and prevent the illegal entry of individuals into 

the United States’’; 

Whereas the Biden administration stopped the previous administration’s southwest border wall construction; 

Whereas the Immigration and Nationality Act mandates that 

the Secretary of Homeland Security detain inadmissible 

aliens arriving at the border who express an intention to 

apply for asylum or fear of persecution; 


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Whereas the Immigration and Nationality Act mandates that 

the Secretary of Homeland Security detain, during removal proceedings, aliens who arrive at the border and 

are found to be inadmissible; 

Whereas the Biden administration has purposely violated 

United States immigration law by refusing to detain inadmissible aliens arriving at the border; 

Whereas the Biden administration’s purposeful violation of 

the mandatory detention statutes of the Immigration and 

Nationality Act has resulted in the mass release of millions of illegal aliens into United States communities; 

Whereas the Biden administration could expand expedited removal to more quickly remove illegal aliens at the border 

and screen more illegal aliens for asylum eligibility instead of mass releasing them into the United States; 

Whereas, when implemented by the Trump administration, 

the Migrant Protection Protocols helped reduce illegal 

immigration; 

Whereas, despite its effectiveness and despite the advice of 

career Department of Homeland Security officials not to 

do so, the Biden administration terminated the Migrant 

Protection Protocols; 

Whereas the Biden administration has purposely violated 

United States immigration law by abusing discretionary 

case-by-case and other parole authorities to mass parole 

illegal aliens who would otherwise have no legal basis to 

enter and remain in the United States; 

Whereas the Biden administration issued multiple memoranda limiting circumstances under which immigration 

enforcement actions can be taken against illegal aliens; 


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Whereas these memoranda are the basis for lower numbers 

of criminal alien removals from the United States; 

Whereas additional criminal aliens remain on American 

streets, free to offend and victimize more Americans, because of the Biden administration’s lack of immigration 

enforcement; 

Whereas these memoranda are the basis for policies directing 

Federal Government attorneys in immigration court to 

not pursue removal cases against illegal aliens; 

Whereas the Biden administration’s open-borders policies signal to illegal aliens that when they come to the United 

States they will be released and will not be removed; 

Whereas the Biden administration’s open-borders policies encourage illegal aliens to come to the United States and 

allow illegal and other criminal aliens to remain in the 

country; 

Whereas the illegal alien who viciously allegedly murdered 22- 

year-old Athens, Georgia, nursing student Laken Riley is 

a beneficiary of the Biden administration’s open-borders 

policies; 

Whereas, during the State of the Union speech, President 

Biden described Laken Riley’s illegal alien alleged murderer as ‘‘an illegal’’; 

Whereas, two days later, after pressure from open-borders 

advocates, President Biden noted in a television interview 

that he felt ‘‘regret’’ for using the word ‘‘illegal’’ to describe Laken Riley’s illegal alien alleged murderer; 

Whereas, during that interview, President Biden claimed that 

illegal aliens like Laken Riley’s alleged murderer ‘‘built 

the country’’; 


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Whereas Laken Riley’s illegal alien alleged murderer should 

not have been released by the Biden administration into 

the United States; 

Whereas Laken Riley’s illegal alien alleged murderer should 

have been arrested and detained by U.S. Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement after he committed crimes in 

the United States; and 

Whereas Laken Riley’s illegal alien alleged murderer is but 

one of countless illegal alien criminals and terrorists the 

Biden administration has released into the United States: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) affirms the Biden administration has taken 

3 executive actions that created the current border cri4 sis, including— 

5 (A) ending the Migrant Protection Proto6 cols; 

7 (B) terminating asylum cooperative agree8 ments with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Sal9 vador; 

10 (C) abusing parole authority; 

11 (D) stopping the previous administration’s 

12 southwest border wall construction; 

13 (E) issuing memoranda limiting immigra14 tion enforcement; 

15 (F) removing fewer criminal aliens from 

16 the United States; and 


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1 (G) purposely violating statutes that re2 quire the detention of inadmissible aliens; 

3 (2) denounces the Biden administration’s open4 borders policies, which allowed Laken Riley’s illegal 

5 alien alleged murderer to enter the United States 

6 and ensured he would not be removed until it was 

7 too late—if at all; 

8 (3) condemns the public safety crisis caused by 

9 the Biden administration’s open-borders policies; 

10 (4) urges the Biden administration to rescind 

11 its open-borders policies; and 

12 (5) implores the Biden administration to imple13 ment policies that end his administration’s border 

14 crisis. 

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