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1 SENATE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, President Joe Biden's Drug Enforcement
3 Administration(DEA) has reported a significant spike in
4 attempts to smuggle large amounts of fentanyl and illicit
5 fentanyl-containing tablets across the southern border,
6 resulting in higher incidents of fentanyl overdoses and deaths
7 in the United States; and
8 WHEREAS, President Biden's Federal Bureau of Investigation
9 (FBI) has confirmed that nearly 1.8 million "gotaways" have
10 entered the United States in recent years, and that a rising
11 number of individuals on the terrorist watchlist have crossed
12 the southern border into the United States; some but not all
13 have been apprehended, and the FBI is actively trying to
14 locate certain individuals from the terrorist watchlist who
15 remain in this country and pose a serious threat to national
16 security; and
17 WHEREAS, The influx of migrants into the United States has
18 led to over 35,000 of those who crossed the U.S. southern
19 border coming to the State of Illinois; and
20 WHEREAS, Historical data shows that most migrants who
21 enter the United States as asylum seekers will be denied
22 asylum and will not be granted lawful permanent status in our
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1 country; and
2 WHEREAS, The migrants in Illinois have placed tremendous
3 pressures on the Illinois Department of Human Services' budget
4 and other budget areas, leading to a diversion of hundreds of
5 millions in total state budget funds toward food, housing,
6 healthcare, and other wraparound services for migrants; and
7 WHEREAS, Comprehensive services for migrants are crowding
8 out other vital funding priorities for the State of Illinois,
9 including adequate care and service hours for the
10 intellectually and developmentally disabled community; and
11 WHEREAS, Illinois' nonpartisan Commission on Government
12 Forecasting and Accountability recently projected a nearly $1
13 billion budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2025; and
14 WHEREAS, Illinois' Healthcare for Immigrant Program, which
15 provides free healthcare to non-citizens, has ballooned in
16 scope and cost to a point where it could cost as much as $1.1
17 billion during the current fiscal year; and
18 WHEREAS, The flow of migrants into communities across the
19 State has resulted in increased class sizes in schools, which
20 adversely affects property taxpayers; and
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1 WHEREAS, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has intentionally
2 failed to perform his sworn duties by knowingly and
3 purposefully refusing to enforce immigration and border
4 control laws passed by the U.S. Congress; and
5 WHEREAS, Through his willful refusal to enforce laws
6 passed by the Congress and through his support of programs
7 that violate immigration laws, Secretary Mayorkas has
8 threatened national security by failing to prevent more than
9 10 million migrants from coming into the United States,
10 including many suspected terrorists; and
11 WHEREAS, By refusing to comply with federal immigration
12 laws, Secretary Mayorkas has also violated the separation of
13 powers section of the Constitution; therefore, be it
14 RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL
15 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we support the United
16 States House of Representatives' action to impeach U.S.
17 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas;
18 and be it further
19 RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
20 delivered to the President of the United States, the U.S.
21 Senate Majority Leader, the U.S. Senate Minority Leader, the
22 U.S. Speaker of the House, the U.S. House of Representatives
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