Title: A resolution supporting the officers and personnel who carry out the important mission of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Expresses support for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and employees and denounces calls for ICE's abolishment.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 572 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 572

   Supporting the officers and personnel who carry out the important 
          mission of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 11, 2018

  Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Perdue, Mr. Grassley, Mr. 
Cornyn, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Inhofe, 
   Mr. Blunt, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Heller, Mr. Boozman, Mr. 
Barrasso, Mrs. Ernst, Mr. Daines, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Crapo, and Mr. Lee) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                            on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Supporting the officers and personnel who carry out the important 
          mission of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Whereas the national security interests of the United States are dependent on 
        the brave men and women who enforce the immigration laws of the United 
        States;
Whereas abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (referred to in this 
        preamble as ``ICE'') would eliminate the agency responsible for removing 
        individuals who enter or remain in the United States illegally, 
        resulting in open borders;
Whereas the call to abolish ICE is an insult to the heroic law enforcement 
        officers of ICE who make sacrifices every day to secure the borders and 
        laws of the United States and to protect the safety and security of 
        United States citizens;
Whereas abolishing ICE would allow dangerous criminal aliens, including violent 
        and ruthless members of the MS-13 gang, to remain in communities in the 
        United States;
Whereas, during fiscal year 2017, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations 
        (referred to in this preamble as ``ERO'') arrested more than 127,000 
        aliens with criminal convictions or charges;
Whereas criminal aliens arrested by ICE ERO in fiscal year 2017 were responsible 
        for more than--

    (1) 76,000 dangerous drug offenses;

    (2) 48,000 assault offenses;

    (3) 11,000 weapon offenses;

    (4) 5,000 sexual assault offenses;

    (5) 2,000 kidnapping offenses; and

    (6) 1,800 homicide offenses;

Whereas ICE Homeland Security Investigations made 4,818 gang-related arrests in 
        fiscal year 2017 and prevents cross-border financial crimes, money 
        laundering, bulk cash smuggling, commercial fraud, intellectual property 
        theft, cybercrimes, and other criminal activities;
Whereas ICE plays a key role in the worldwide fight against human trafficking 
        and child sexual exploitation through the Blue Campaign, the Child 
        Exploitation Investigations Unit, the Human Exploitation Rescue 
        Operative (``HERO'') Child-Rescue Corps Program, and Homeland Security 
        Investigations;
Whereas abolishing ICE would mean that countless illegal aliens who could pose a 
        threat to public safety would be allowed to roam free instead of being 
        removed from United States soil;
Whereas abolishing ICE would result in more dangerous illegal drugs flowing into 
        communities in the United States, causing more United States citizens to 
        needlessly suffer;
Whereas ICE plays a critical role in combatting the drug crisis facing the 
        United States;
Whereas ICE seized more than 980,000 pounds of narcotics in fiscal year 2017, 
        including thousands of pounds of the deadly drugs fueling the opioid 
        crisis;
Whereas ICE seized approximately 2,370 pounds of fentanyl and 6,967 pounds of 
        heroin in fiscal year 2017;
Whereas ICE logged nearly 630,000 investigative hours directed toward fentanyl 
        in fiscal year 2017;
Whereas abolishing ICE would allow those drugs to remain in communities in the 
        United States, causing more devastation;
Whereas abolishing ICE would eliminate the agency that deports aliens that pose 
        a terrorist threat to the United States;
Whereas ICE was created in 2003 to better protect national security and public 
        safety after the terrorists responsible for the terrorist attacks on the 
        United States on September 11, 2001, exploited immigration rules to gain 
        entry into the United States;
Whereas the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 
        found that many of the hijackers involved in the attacks on September 
        11, 2001, committed visa violations;
Whereas ICE identifies dangerous individuals before they enter the United States 
        and locates them as they violate United States immigration laws; and
Whereas abolishing ICE would enable the hundreds of thousands of foreign 
        nationals who illegally overstay visas each year to remain in the United 
        States indefinitely: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) expresses continued support for all officers and 
        employees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (referred 
        to in this resolution as ``ICE'') who carry out the important 
        mission of ICE;
            (2) denounces calls for the complete abolishment of ICE; 
        and
            (3) supports the efforts of officers and employees of the 
        United States Armed Forces and Federal and State law 
        enforcement agencies who bring law and order to the borders of 
        the United States.
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