H. Res. 1210 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
May 15, 2024. 
Whereas the Biden administration brazenly eliminated effec-
tive and lawful Trump administration immigration en-
forcement policies, directly leading to the worst border 
crisis in the history of the Nation and affecting every 
State; 
Whereas the Biden administration’s failed border policies 
have resulted in an exponential rise in illegal alien en-
counters, totaling more than 9,300,000 in less than 4 
years; 
Whereas over 1,800,000 known ‘‘gotaways’’ have crossed the 
border illegally and evaded apprehension, with the admin-
istration having no idea of their identity, whereabouts, or 
intent; 
Whereas at least 362 individuals on the terrorist watch list 
have been apprehended trying to illegally enter the coun-
try between ports of entry since fiscal year 2021; 
Whereas fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are pouring into 
the United States, forcing local police departments to 
issue naloxone, a lifesaving medication used to reverse 
opioid overdoses, to every officer; 
Whereas the suffering endured by the American people from 
the unprecedented rise in dangerous crime and historic
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levels of drug-related deaths is the direct result of an un-
secured border; 
Whereas elected Democrats from Colorado, Illinois, Massa-
chusetts, New York, Texas, and Washington, DC, have 
declared states of emergency as a result of the border cri-
sis; 
Whereas Democrat-led sanctuary cities have slashed city 
budgets, including funding for law enforcement; 
Whereas law enforcement officers in the United States have 
suffered through calls by politicians and activists to 
‘‘defund the police’’ and are now suffering from histori-
cally low levels of recruitment and morale as a result of 
these attacks to their profession; 
Whereas migrant gangs, such as the violent Venezuelan gang 
Tren de Aragua, actively recruit newly arrived illegal 
aliens into theft rings and criminal networks; 
Whereas New York City Police Department Commissioner 
Edward Caban has warned New Yorkers of a ‘‘wave of 
migrant crime’’, and Democrat Mayor Eric Adams has 
claimed the migrant crisis will ‘‘destroy New York City’’; 
Whereas, on February 23, 2024, Venezuelan national Jose 
Antonio Ibarra was arrested and charged with the mur-
der of 22-year-old student Laken Riley; 
Whereas Ibarra entered the country illegally in September 
2022 and was subsequently released by U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection into the interior; 
Whereas, on March 2, 2024, an illegal alien, who entered the 
United States as a ‘‘gotaway’’ at an unknown time and 
location, allegedly struck and killed Washington State 
Trooper Christopher Gadd;
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Whereas a Haitian national who entered the United States 
via the unlawful Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Ven-
ezuelan parole program, was arrested on March 13, 
2024, for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl at an 
illegal alien shelter in Massachusetts; 
Whereas an illegal alien from Lebanon apprehended while il-
legally crossing the southwest border on March 9, 2024, 
admitted to being a Hezbollah terrorist and having inten-
tions to make a bomb; 
Whereas, on March 21, 2024, illegal aliens in El Paso rushed 
the border fence and Texas National Guard troops in an 
effort to breach the border into the United States; 
Whereas a previously deported illegal alien was charged on 
March 23, 2024, with murdering 25-year-old Michigan 
resident Ruby Garcia; 
Whereas, on March 27, 2024, an illegal alien from China ille-
gally breached a military base in California and refused 
to leave; 
Whereas, on January 27, 2024, 2 New York City Police De-
partment officers were assaulted by more than a dozen 
illegal alien suspects in Times Square, many of whom 
were set free without bail; and 
Whereas law enforcement officers are increasingly targeted 
and assaulted by illegal aliens while Democrat elected of-
ficials prioritize illegal alien criminals over citizens and 
legal residents of the United States: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) acknowledges that United States law enforce-
ment officers are bravely facing dangers and challenges
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every day that are exacerbated by the unprecedented cri-
sis at the border, which affects the entire country; 
(2) condemns the open border crisis that President 
Joe Biden, ‘‘Border Czar’’ Vice President Kamala Har-
ris, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security 
Alejandro Mayorkas, and other Biden administration of-
ficials have willingly created along the southwest border; 
(3) urges the Biden administration, and State and 
local elected officials, to encourage and support dedi-
cated law enforcement officers so those officers can pro-
tect the homeland, their cities, counties, or States, and 
restore law and order; and 
(4) recognizes and sympathizes with law enforce-
ment officers in the United States who have suffered 
through the mental, physical, and psychological stress 
associated with the lack of support, trust, and respect 
they face in our country today. 
Attest: 
Clerk.