IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1371 
Strongly condemning the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala 
Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 22, 2024 
Ms. STEFANIK (for herself, Mr. DUNN of Florida, Mr. LOPEZ, and Mr. BOST) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judici-
ary, 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 
Strongly condemning the Biden Administration and its Bor-
der Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United 
States border. 
Whereas, on March 24, 2021, President Biden asked Vice 
President Kamala Harris to serve as the administration’s 
border czar in charge of: working to address the ‘‘root 
causes’’ of illegal immigration into the United States; 
Whereas it took Vice President Kamala Harris 93 days as 
the border czar before finally visiting the southern border 
on June 25, 2021; 
Whereas when Vice President Kamala Harris traveled near 
the southern border for the first time on June 25, 2021, 
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she decided to travel to El Paso, Texas, 800 miles away 
from the lower Rio Grande; 
Whereas former United States Border Patrol Chief Raul 
Ortiz stated that during his two years in the position, 
‘‘I’ve never had one conversation with the president 
[Biden] or the vice president [Harris], for that matter. 
I was the Chief of the Border Patrol, I commanded 
21,000 people. That’s a problem.’’; 
Whereas current United States Border Patrol Chief Jason 
Owens stated that Vice President Kamala Harris has not 
spoken with him since he was appointed in July 2023; 
Whereas, since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office, 
there have been over 9.7 million illegal immigrant en-
counters nationwide; 
Whereas, since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office, 
there have been over 7.9 million illegal immigrant en-
counters at the United States southern border; 
Whereas, since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office, 
there have been roughly 2 million known gotaways who 
evaded the United States Border Patrol; 
Whereas this number represents more known gotaways than 
in the previous decade combined; 
Whereas, in May 2024, there were 170,723 illegal immigrant 
encounters at the United States southern border, a 185 
percent increase from the average May encounter total 
under President Trump; 
Whereas May 2024 was the 39th straight month where 
monthly illegal immigrant encounters have been higher 
than even the highest month seen under President 
Trump; 
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Whereas illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories 
who have murdered innocent Americans like Laken Riley, 
Jocelyn Nungary, Rachel Morin, and others throughout 
the United States, pose an existential threat to the safety 
and security of the American people; 
Whereas, in June 2024, NBC News reported that over 50 il-
legal immigrants with ties to ISIS were on the loose in 
the United States after having been released by the 
Biden administration; 
Whereas, during the Biden administration, over 350 of these 
individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watch 
list were stopped trying to cross the southern border; 
Whereas, to date in fiscal year 2024, there have been a 
record-breaking 31,077 Communist Chinese nationals en-
countered at the southwest border; 
Whereas the Biden border crisis is costing the United States 
approximately $150.7 billion each year and each taxpayer 
$1,156 each year; 
Whereas, in May 2024, the Committee on Homeland Security 
Republicans released documents showing the Biden ad-
ministration secretly flew over 400,000 illegal immigrants 
into the country; and 
Whereas President Biden’s and Border Czar Harris’s far left 
Democrat open border policies are to blame for this his-
toric crisis, and in August 2022, Biden and his adminis-
tration decided to make the border crisis significantly 
worse by formally ending former President Trump’s suc-
cessful Remain in Mexico program: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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(1) strongly condemns the Biden Administra-
tion and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure 
to secure the United States border; 
(2) affirms that the American people deserve 
elected officials who understand the gravity of the 
crisis at the border and who will execute the policies 
to fix the border crisis; and 
(3) clearly and firmly states that the continu-
ation of the Biden, Harris border policies would be 
disastrous for both the United States and the Amer-
ican people. 
Æ 
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