H. Res. 957 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
January 17, 2024. 
Whereas the United States is in the midst of the worst bor-
der security crisis in the Nation’s history; 
Whereas, during every month of the Biden administration, 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encoun-
tered more than 100,000 illegal aliens along the south-
west border; 
Whereas the total number of illegal aliens encountered along 
the southwest border during the Biden administration ex-
ceeds 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 detec-
tion along the southwest border; 
Whereas the record 312 illegal aliens on the Terrorist Screen-
ing Dataset encountered by Border Patrol along the 
southwest border during the Biden administration rep-
resents a more than 2,700-percent increase when com-
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pared to the total number of such aliens encountered dur-
ing 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 ille-
gal 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 im-
migration officials to deport aliens who violate United 
States law, ensuring relatively few aliens, including crimi-
nal aliens, are removed from the country; 
Whereas the Biden administration’s lax immigration enforce-
ment 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 al-
ready 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-bor-
ders policies; 
(2) condemns the national security and public safe-
ty 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 administra-
tion’s open-borders policies. 
Attest: 
Clerk.