border. As a result, the number of criminal runner gotaways has steadily risen, enabling criminals to enter the country undeterred. According to law enforcement sources, these aliens have criminal intent and are the most likely to be involved with the human, sex, and drug trafficking activities of transnational criminal organizations. These aliens then disappear into the interior of the United States and plug into existing criminal networks. Secretary Mayorkas, in his conduct as an executive officer of the United States and the policies enacted under his direction, has so deprioritized border enforcement that he has ceded control of large portions of the United States-Mexico border to dangerous Mexican cartels. Along some segments of the United States-Mexico border, cartels have even established a presence on the United States side of the border and, in some cases, on Federal property. This has allowed the cartels to greatly increase their ability and capacity for human and drug smuggling. Secretary Mayorkas has overseen a stunning increase in the flow of illicit drugs into the United States from Mexico and elsewhere around the globe, including the People’s Republic of China. Under Secretary Mayorkas’ tenure, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized enough illicitly manufactured fentanyl to kill over 3,300,000,000 Americans, nearly 10 times the population of the United States. Law enforcement officers have acknowledged that only a fraction of illicit controlled dangerous substance drugs are intercepted at the border, and a vast amount of the illicit fentanyl entering the United States is doing so between ports of entry. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, illicitly manufactured fentanyl caused the deaths of 110,236 Americans in 2022. It has become a leading cause of death for adults between the ages of 18 and 45. Most illicitly manufactured fentanyl found in the United States is being manufactured with raw chemical precursors from the People’s Republic of China, trafficked through