H. Res. 1065 

In the House of Representatives, U. S., 

March 12, 2024. 

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 nearly 9,300,000 illegal aliens from all 

around the world, including criminal aliens and suspected 

terrorists, to arrive at the southwest border; 

Whereas the Biden administration has allowed at least 

6,300,000 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; 
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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 Biden administration retains the ability to negotiate asylum cooperative agreements with those countries 

but has refused to do so, despite historic illegal immigration at the southwest border; 

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; 

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 could comply with the 

mandatory detention statutes of the Immigration and 

Nationality Act; 

Whereas the Biden administration’s purposeful violation of 

the mandatory detention statutes of the Immigration and 
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Nationality Act has resulted in the mass release of millions of illegal aliens into United States communities; 

Whereas current immigration law allows for inadmissible 

aliens to be expeditiously removed from the United States 

once encountered at the border unless they establish a 

credible fear of persecution; 

Whereas the Biden administration has released millions of illegal aliens into the United States without even processing them for expedited removal to be screened for asylum eligibility; 

Whereas, of the 5,600,000 illegal alien encounters from January 20, 2021, through August 31, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security placed only 6.8 percent of 

those illegal aliens into expedited removal proceedings to 

even be screened for asylum eligibility; 

Whereas, of the illegal aliens who were not found to have a 

credible fear of persecution, roughly 40 percent were not 

removed and remained in the United States as of August 

31, 2023; 

Whereas, of the illegal aliens who were processed for expedited removal and who did not even attempt to make a 

claim for asylum, the Biden administration cannot confirm removal or return from the United States for nearly 

a third of those illegal aliens; 

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 the Biden administration’s limited use of expedited 

removal only incentivizes illegal immigration and worsens 

the border crisis; 
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Whereas, despite its effectiveness, 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’s proposed solution to the 

border crisis failed to address catch-and-release valves 

such as the Flores Settlement Agreement and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act that 

incentivize surges of unaccompanied alien children and 

adults arriving with children to come to the southwest 

border putting children’s lives at risk; 

Whereas the Biden administration could end its catch-and-release policies; 

Whereas the Biden administration’s proposed solutions to the 

border crisis did nothing to end catch-and-release but instead mandated mass releases of illegal aliens at the 

southwest border; 

Whereas parks, schools, police stations, recreation centers, 

hotels, and airports have been repurposed for use as shelters for illegal aliens; 

Whereas the Biden administration’s open-borders policies 

have strained State and local social services resources as 

the millions of illegal aliens who have entered since January 20, 2021, compete with Americans and legal immigrants for those resources; 

Whereas current immigration law empowers the President to 

‘‘suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens . 

. . or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he 
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may deem to be appropriate’’ ‘‘[w]henever the President 

finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens 

into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States’’; 

Whereas the Supreme Court has described the President’s 

suspension of entry authority as an authority that ‘‘exudes deference to the President in every clause’’; 

Whereas President Biden has cited his suspension of entry 

authority in other instances but has refused to use that 

authority to address the border crisis; 

Whereas President Biden retains the power to use his suspension of entry authority to address the border crisis; 

Whereas President Biden’s refusal to use his suspension of 

entry authority ensures that the border stays open, endangers the homeland, and encourages illegal immigration; and 

Whereas President Biden has claimed he is powerless to address the border crisis through executive action: Now, 

therefore, be it 

Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

(1) affirms that, in order to help control the crisis 

at the border that it has created, the Biden Administration has the authority to— 

(A) end the catch-and-release policy; 

(B) reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols; 

(C) enter into asylum cooperative agreements; 

(D) end abuses of parole authority; 

(E) detain inadmissible aliens; 
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(F) use expedited removal authority; and 

(G) rein in taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal 

aliens; 

(2) affirms that the Biden Administration is refusing to use such authorities; and 

(3) urges the Biden Administration to immediately 

begin using such authorities. 

Attest: 

Clerk.