On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General released a stunning report that found under border czar Kamala Harris nearly 300,000 illegal immigrant children are unaccounted for. The stunning report goes on to say that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has “no assurance” that these unaccounted illegal immigrant children “are safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.”

According to the DHS Office of Inspector General report: 

“As of May 2024, ICE had not served an NTA or scheduled a court date for more than 291,000 UCs. In each ICE location we visited, ERO could not serve NTAs on all UCs. At one location we visited, 34,823 (84 percent) of 41,638 UCs in the local area had not been served NTAs to initiate immigration proceedings…Without an ability to monitor the location and status of UCs, ICE has no assurance UCs are safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.”

MAKE NO MISTAKE: One of the top issues facing Americans is the invasion of illegal immigrants into our country, which jeopardizes the safety and security of every American. No person bears more responsibility for this crisis than border czar Kamala Harris. The American people have had enough, and House Republicans know that the only way to fix this historic crisis is by returning to President Trump’s border security policies, which gave us the securest border in modern history. 

KAMALA HARRIS HAS FAILED AS BORDER CZAR:

• Since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office:
  • There have been OVER 10 MILLION illegal immigrant encounters nationwide. 
  • There have been OVER 8.2 MILLION illegal immigrant encounters at our Southern Border.
  • There have been roughly 2 million known gotaways who evaded U.S. Border Patrol.  
  • The Biden-Harris Administration has failed to remove 99.7% of the illegal immigrants released into the United States.
  • There have been more known gotaways than in the previous decade combined. 
• In July, there were 104,116 illegal immigrant encounters at our Southern Border.  
  • This is roughly 3,350 daily encounters, which is nearly four times more than the definition of a "crisis" set by Obama's DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson who said in 2019 that "more than 1,000" encounters a day "overwhelms the system."
• In March 2021, Harris was appointed border czar.
  • In 2023, Harris said that the Biden-Harris Administration’s “immigration policies largely involve undoing” President Trump’s border security policies. 
• Border czar Harris has only visited our Southern Border once. 
  • When Harris finally did visit the Southern Border “federal agents on the front lines were instructed to completely sanitize the area to hide the true severity of the crisis from cameras.” 
  • Harris' only visit to the Southern Border was widely panned as nothing more than a photo-op.
• Border czar Harris has NEVER spoken with either of the past two Border Patrol chiefs.
• By every metric Harris has failed as border czar:
  • Illegal immigrant crossings of our Southern Border nearly doubled under Harris’ watch reaching over 300,000 in a single month. 
    • This is the highest number of illegal immigrant crossings in recorded history. 
  • For 39 consecutive months, illegal immigrant crossings were higher under border czar Harris than the highest month under President Trump. 
  • OVER 200,000 Americans have died from the fentanyl being smuggled across the Southern Border by the criminal cartels.
  • Over the past 24 months, federal law enforcement seized an average, 2,020 pounds of fentanyl each month, enough to kill over 458 million people. With approximately 336 million people currently residing in the United States, that is enough fentanyl to kill every American and still have over 120 million lethal doses.
  • From FY21 through mid-July 2024, the Border Patrol recorded 52,058 arrests of illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds.
    • This is an OVER 130% increase compared to President Trump’s Administration. 
    • In August, ICE arrested the leader of a violent criminal organization who is wanted by authorities in Columbia for homicide and arms trafficking. He illegally crossed the Southern Border in September 2023 and was released by the Biden-Harris Administration.  
  • According to DHS as border czar, Harris oversaw the misplacement of nearly 300,000 illegal immigrant children that ICE has “no assurance” that these unaccounted illegal immigrant children “are safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.”
  • Under Harris, over 350 of these individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to cross the Southern Border.
    • So far in FY24, there have been 93 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist who were stopped trying to enter the U.S. illegally between ports of entry at the Southern Border. 
    • In April, ICE arrested an Uzbek national living in Baltimore with alleged ISIS ties. 33-year-old Jovokhir Attoev crossed the border illegally in 2022, was released by the Biden-Harris administration, and lived freely in the United States for two years before his arrest. 
    • In June, ICE arrested eight men from Tajikistan suspected of having ISIS ties. One of the men crossed the border using the CBP One app. 
    • Also in June, NBC News reported that over 50 illegal immigrants with ties to ISIS were on the loose in our nation after having been released by the Biden Administration. 
    • In August, House Judiciary Committee Republicans released a report showing that between FY2021 and FY2023, at least 99 illegal immigrants on the FBI terror watchlist were released into the US after being arrested by the Border Patrol at the Southern Border. 
      • Additionally, the Committee found that, due to woefully inadequate information sharing under border czar Harris, 27 illegal immigrants on the terrorist watchlist were granted bond by an Immigration judge, and an additional four were granted asylum. 

Legislation cosponsored:

• H.Res. 1394 - Celebrating the principles of democracy, religious pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law shared by both the United States and India, the strong people-to-people ties between the United States and India, and the success of the Indian diaspora in the United States.
• H.R. 9373 - To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from granting parole to certain dangerous aliens, and for other purposes.
• H.R. 9374 - To amend the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to provide for a prohibition on contributions to the United Nations relating to Israel.

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