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Whereas asylum cooperative agreements increase cooperation 
with United States allies in the Western Hemisphere and 
around the world and promote shared responsibility; 
Whereas the previous administration announced asylum coop-
erative agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala, and 
Honduras; 
Whereas the Biden administration suspended and terminated 
these asylum cooperative agreements as part of its open- 
borders agenda that has encouraged mass illegal immi-
gration to the southwest border; 
Whereas the Biden administration retains the ability to nego-
tiate asylum cooperative agreements with those countries 
but has refused to do so, despite historic illegal immigra-
tion at the southwest border; 
Whereas the Immigration and Nationality Act mandates that 
the Secretary of Homeland Security detain inadmissible 
aliens arriving at the border who express an intention to 
apply for asylum or fear of persecution; 
Whereas the Immigration and Nationality Act mandates that 
the Secretary of Homeland Security detain, during re-
moval proceedings, aliens who arrive at the border and 
are found to be inadmissible; 
Whereas the Biden administration has purposely violated 
United States immigration law by refusing to detain in-
admissible aliens arriving at the border; 
Whereas, the Biden administration could comply with the 
mandatory detention statutes of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act; 
Whereas the Biden administration’s purposeful violation of 
the mandatory detention statutes of the Immigration and
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Nationality Act has resulted in the mass release of mil-
lions of illegal aliens into United States communities; 
Whereas current immigration law allows for inadmissible 
aliens to be expeditiously removed from the United States 
once encountered at the border unless they establish a 
credible fear of persecution; 
Whereas the Biden administration has released millions of il-
legal aliens into the United States without even proc-
essing them for expedited removal to be screened for asy-
lum eligibility; 
Whereas, of the 5,600,000 illegal alien encounters from Jan-
uary 20, 2021, through August 31, 2023, the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security placed only 6.8 percent of 
those illegal aliens into expedited removal proceedings to 
even be screened for asylum eligibility; 
Whereas, of the illegal aliens who were not found to have a 
credible fear of persecution, roughly 40 percent were not 
removed and remained in the United States as of August 
31, 2023; 
Whereas, of the illegal aliens who were processed for expe-
dited removal and who did not even attempt to make a 
claim for asylum, the Biden administration cannot con-
firm removal or return from the United States for nearly 
a third of those illegal aliens; 
Whereas the Biden administration could expand expedited re-
moval to more quickly remove illegal aliens at the border 
and screen more illegal aliens for asylum eligibility in-
stead of mass releasing them into the United States; 
Whereas the Biden administration’s limited use of expedited 
removal only incentivizes illegal immigration and worsens 
the border crisis;
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Whereas, despite its effectiveness, the Biden administration 
terminated the Migrant Protection Protocols; 
Whereas the Biden administration has purposely violated 
United States immigration law by abusing discretionary 
case-by-case and other parole authorities to mass parole 
illegal aliens who would otherwise have no legal basis to 
enter and remain in the United States; 
Whereas the Biden administration’s proposed solution to the 
border crisis failed to address catch-and-release valves 
such as the Flores Settlement Agreement and the Traf-
ficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act that 
incentivize surges of unaccompanied alien children and 
adults arriving with children to come to the southwest 
border putting children’s lives at risk; 
Whereas the Biden administration could end its catch-and-re-
lease policies; 
Whereas the Biden administration’s proposed solutions to the 
border crisis did nothing to end catch-and-release but in-
stead mandated mass releases of illegal aliens at the 
southwest border; 
Whereas parks, schools, police stations, recreation centers, 
hotels, and airports have been repurposed for use as shel-
ters for illegal aliens; 
Whereas the Biden administration’s open-borders policies 
have strained State and local social services resources as 
the millions of illegal aliens who have entered since Janu-
ary 20, 2021, compete with Americans and legal immi-
grants for those resources; 
Whereas current immigration law empowers the President to 
‘‘suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens . 
. . or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he
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may deem to be appropriate’’ ‘‘[w]henever the President 
finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens 
into the United States would be detrimental to the inter-
ests of the United States’’; 
Whereas the Supreme Court has described the President’s 
suspension of entry authority as an authority that ‘‘ex-
udes deference to the President in every clause’’; 
Whereas President Biden has cited his suspension of entry 
authority in other instances but has refused to use that 
authority to address the border crisis; 
Whereas President Biden retains the power to use his sus-
pension of entry authority to address the border crisis; 
Whereas President Biden’s refusal to use his suspension of 
entry authority ensures that the border stays open, en-
dangers the homeland, and encourages illegal immigra-
tion; and 
Whereas President Biden has claimed he is powerless to ad-
dress the border crisis through executive action: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) affirms that, in order to help control the crisis 
at the border that it has created, the Biden Administra-
tion has the authority to— 
(A) end the catch-and-release policy; 
(B) reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols; 
(C) enter into asylum cooperative agreements; 
(D) end abuses of parole authority; 
(E) detain inadmissible aliens;
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(F) use expedited removal authority; and 
(G) rein in taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal 
aliens; 
(2) affirms that the Biden Administration is refus-
ing to use such authorities; and 
(3) urges the Biden Administration to immediately 
begin using such authorities. 
Attest: 
Clerk.