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Whereas authorities have seized thousands of pounds of 
fentanyl—enough to kill every American multiple times 
over; 
Whereas the United States has a drug epidemic whereby tens 
of thousands of Americans die every year and a little less 
than 100 percent of drugs, including heroin, meth-
amphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine, are smuggled across 
the southern border; 
Whereas migrant women and children, who represent an in-
creasing number of crossings and face a high risk of sex-
ual assault and trafficking, are abused, raped, tortured, 
enslaved and trafficked as a result of the Biden adminis-
tration’s failure to secure our southern Border; 
Whereas attempted crossings by, and apprehensions of, illegal 
immigrant criminals on the FBI’s terror watchlist have 
increased exponentially year over year, and even more il-
legal immigrant criminals and terrorists may have slipped 
across the border without detection—the ‘‘gotaways’’; 
Whereas cartels act as paramilitary, narco-terrorist organiza-
tions that profit from trafficking people and drugs across 
the southern border into the United States; 
Whereas Customs and Border Protection agents have con-
firmed that cartels facilitate and profit from virtually 
every illegal border crossing; 
Whereas the Biden administration has repeatedly removed ef-
fective measures that have reduced illegal immigration 
and secured the border, including Migrant Protection 
Protocols policy, remain in Mexico, a halt on border wall 
construction, a reinstatement of ‘‘catch and release’’, a 
weakening of asylum requirements, and countless other 
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policy decisions that encourage a disregard for our laws 
and sovereignty and embolden cartels; 
Whereas States along our southern border—Texas, New Mex-
ico, Arizona, and California—are forced to spend billions 
of their own taxpayer dollars to address and combat the 
devastation resulting from an unsecured southern border; 
Whereas State and local law enforcement entities are over-
whelmed by dangerous criminal activities associated with 
illegal border crossings, putting officers and their com-
munities in danger while draining local resources; and 
Whereas the quality of life and security of communities in 
border States, along with every other State in the U.S., 
are being threatened, including ranchers suffering from 
stolen and damaged property, healthcare providers with 
strained capacity, and educators struggling to absorb the 
high volume of migrant children in classrooms: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) declares and finds as a matter of fact any 
State within the United States has the sovereign 
right to exclude from the sovereign’s territory any 
person who does not have the right to be there; 
(2) declares and finds as a matter of fact the 
States at our southern border, including Texas, New 
Mexico, Arizona, and California, are being invaded 
or are in such imminent danger from paramilitary, 
narco-terrorist cartels, terrorists and criminal actors 
as will not admit delay as stated in article I, section 
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10 of the United States Constitution and those 
States have the sovereign and unilateral authority 
pursuant to article I, section 10 of the United States 
Constitution to defend themselves against the inva-
sion or imminent danger by paramilitary, narco-ter-
rorist cartels, terrorists and criminal actors; 
(3) declares and finds as a matter of fact the 
United States has failed to protect the aforemen-
tioned States at our southern border against inva-
sion pursuant to article IV, section 4 of the United 
States Constitution or to ‘‘ensure domestic tran-
quility’’, ‘‘provide for the common defense’’, and 
‘‘execute the laws’’ of the United States; and 
(4) declares and finds as a matter of fact the 
Biden administration has failed to faithfully execute 
the laws of the United States and to defend and pro-
tect the aforementioned States on the southern bor-
der against invasion or imminent danger. 
Æ 
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