; Whereas, during fiscal year 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection made more than 2,400,000 apprehensions of illegal immigrants along the international border between the United States and Mexico, which is the highest level ever recorded; Whereas, on April 1, 2022, President Biden announced the termination of a public health policy used to expel potentially infected illegal immigrants during the COVID–19 pandemic (commonly known as the title 42 policy ); Whereas, on September 30, 2021, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, issued a memorandum titled Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law , which stated that an alien’s illegal status in the United States should not be the sole basis of an enforcement action and prioritized for apprehension and removal aliens who are a threat to national security, public safety, or border security; Whereas, on October 12, 2021, Secretary Mayorkas issued a memorandum titled Worksite Enforcement: The Strategy to Protect the American Labor Market, the Conditions of the American Worksite, and the Dignity of the Individual , which included Department-wide guidance to cease mass worksite operations, among other instructions; Whereas, on October 27, 2021, Secretary Mayorkas issued a memorandum titled Guidelines for Enforcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas , which listed numerous protected areas where the enforcement of Federal immigration law should not occur; Whereas, in December 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered 302,034 illegal immigrants along the international border between the United States and Mexico, which is the highest number of such encounters ever recorded in a single month; Whereas President Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget request aims to shift the Department of Homeland Security’s border management away from enforcement and toward effectively managing irregular migration along the Southwest border ; Whereas, in November 2022, Texas Governor Greg Abbott— (1) declared a state of invasion at the southern border