; and (C) the failure of the Department of Homeland Security, under the leadership of Secretary Mayorkas, to comply with provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq. ), which require the detention of inadmissible aliens arriving in the United States or aliens who are physically present in the United States without inspection until processed, and the implementation by Secretary Mayorkas of unlawful and misguided catch-and-release directives, such as the Notice to Report process and the parole plus Alternatives to Detention process, which have resulted in the reckless release of more than 1,000,000 illegal aliens into the interior of the United States; and (2) gravely endangering the national security of the United States, undermining the operational control of our southern border, and encouraging illegal immigration by— (A) terminating contracts for additional border wall construction for which Congress appropriated funding; and (B) issuing memoranda rescinding the Migrant Protection Protocols (commonly known as Remain in Mexico ), which was an indispensable tool to address the border crisis and restore integrity to the immigration system; Whereas Secretary Mayorkas, in the memorandum announcing the termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols program (MPP) on June 1, 2021, acknowledged, some removal proceedings conducted pursuant to MPP were completed more expeditiously than is typical for non-detained cases ; Whereas Federal authorities seized more than 14,000 pounds of illicit fentanyl along the southwest border during fiscal year 2022 and 13,800 pounds of illicit fentanyl during fiscal year 2023 to date, which is evidence of increased efforts by transnational criminal organizations to traffic dangerous substances into the United States