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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 957 Engrossed in House (EH)]

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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 
        compared 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--
            (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.
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