H. Res. 957 

In the House of Representatives, U. S., 

January 17, 2024. 

Whereas the United States is in the midst of the worst border security crisis in the Nation’s history; 

Whereas, during every month of the Biden administration, 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered more than 100,000 illegal aliens along the southwest border; 

Whereas the total number of illegal aliens encountered along 

the southwest border during the Biden administration exceeds 7 million; 

Whereas the Biden administration has released at least 3.3 

million of those illegal aliens into the interior of the 

United States; 

Whereas, during the Biden administration, more than 1.7 

million known illegal alien ‘‘gotaways’’ have successfully 

evaded U.S. Border Patrol along the southwest border; 

Whereas, during the Biden administration, an untold number 

of unknown illegal alien ‘‘gotaways’’ have evaded detection along the southwest border; 

Whereas the record 312 illegal aliens on the Terrorist Screening Dataset encountered by Border Patrol along the 

southwest border during the Biden administration represents a more than 2,700-percent increase when com-
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pared to the total number of such aliens encountered during all four years of the previous administration; 

Whereas the Biden administration created the illegal alien 

crisis at the southwest border by terminating the Migrant 

Protection Protocols, halting border wall construction, 

abusing parole authority, mass releasing millions of illegal aliens into the country, and implementing policies 

that incentivize illegal immigration, among other actions; 

Whereas the Biden administration systematically dismantled 

immigration enforcement and restricted the ability of immigration officials to deport aliens who violate United 

States law, ensuring relatively few aliens, including criminal aliens, are removed from the country; 

Whereas the Biden administration’s lax immigration enforcement policies have resulted in numerous violent criminal 

aliens being released into United States communities; 

Whereas the Biden administration’s lax border enforcement 

policies have allowed fentanyl to saturate United States 

communities and kill Americans; 

Whereas the Biden administration’s historic border crisis has 

made every State a border State; 

Whereas the Biden administration refuses to use tools already at its disposal to end the border crisis; and 

Whereas the Biden administration’s proposed solution to the 

historic border crisis—legislation to grant amnesty to 

tens of millions of illegal aliens—will do nothing but 

incentivize additional illegal immigration: Now, therefore, 

be it 

Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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(1) denounces the Biden administration’s open-borders policies; 

(2) condemns the national security and public safety crisis that President Joe Biden, ‘‘Border Czar’’ Vice 

President Kamala Harris, Secretary of the Department 

of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and other 

Biden administration officials have created along the 

southwest border; and 

(3) urges President Biden to end his administration’s open-borders policies. 

Attest: 

Clerk.