Sec. 1088. Sense of Congress regarding crisis at the Southwest border
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Congress makes the following findings: There were 1,300,000 illegal crossings between January, 2021, and July, 2021, at the Southwest land border of the United States. The 212,672 migrant encounters on the Southwest land border in July 2021 was a 21-year high. Noncitizens with criminal convictions are routinely encountered at ports of entry and between ports of entry on the Southwest land border. Some of the inadmissible individuals encountered on the southwest border are known or suspected terrorists.
Transnational criminal organizations routinely move illicit drugs, counterfeit products, and trafficked humans across the Southwest land border. It is the sense of Congress that— the current level of illegal crossings and trafficking on the Southwest border represents a national security threat; the Department of Defense has rightly contributed personnel to aid the efforts of the United States Government to address the crisis at the Southwest border; the National Guard and active duty members of the Armed Forces are to be commended for their hard work and dedication in their response to the crisis at the Southwest land border; and border security is a matter of national security and the failure to address the crisis at the Southwest border introduces significant risk to the people of the United States.