; Whereas U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended 169 people during fiscal year 2023 along the international border between the United States and Mexico who are listed on the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ terrorist screening database; Whereas U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested more than 15,627 illegal aliens during fiscal year 2023 who have been convicted of 1 or more crimes in the United States or abroad, including— (1) 284 convicted sexual criminals; (2) 29 who were convicted of homicide or manslaughter; (3) 307 who were convicted of illegal weapons possession, transport, or trafficking; (4) 864 who were convicted of burglary, robbery, larceny, theft, or fraud; and (5) 1,254 who were convicted of assault, battery, or domestic violence; Whereas, during fiscal year 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized— (1) 27,000 pounds of fentanyl; (2) 1,500 pounds of heroin; (3) 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine; (4) 81,100 pounds of cocaine; and (5) 7,800 pounds of ketamine; Whereas, provisional data from the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there were 107,622 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 2021, an increase of nearly 15 percent from the estimated 93,655 deaths in 2020, with overdose deaths involving opioids increasing from an estimated 70,029 in 2020 to an estimated 80,816 in 2021, and overdose deaths from synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl), psychostimulants (such as methamphetamine), and cocaine also increasing during 2021; Whereas clause 1 of section 10 of article I of the United States Constitution states, in part, No State shall, without the Consent of Congress … engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. ; Whereas section 4 of article IV of the United States Constitution states, in part, The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion