; Whereas the United States has a drug epidemic whereby tens of thousands of Americans die every year and a little less than 100 percent of drugs, including heroin, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine, are smuggled across the southern border; Whereas migrant women and children, who represent an increasing number of crossings and face a high risk of sexual assault and trafficking, are abused, raped, tortured, enslaved and trafficked as a result of the Biden administration’s failure to secure our southern Border; Whereas attempted crossings by, and apprehensions of, illegal immigrant criminals on the FBI’s terror watchlist have increased exponentially year over year, and even more illegal immigrant criminals and terrorists may have slipped across the border without detection—the gotaways ; Whereas cartels act as paramilitary, narco-terrorist organizations that profit from trafficking people and drugs across the southern border into the United States; Whereas Customs and Border Protection agents have confirmed that cartels facilitate and profit from virtually every illegal border crossing; Whereas the Biden administration has repeatedly removed effective measures that have reduced illegal immigration and secured the border, including Migrant Protection Protocols policy, remain in Mexico, a halt on border wall construction, a reinstatement of catch and release , a weakening of asylum requirements, and countless other policy decisions that encourage a disregard for our laws and sovereignty and embolden cartels; Whereas States along our southern border—Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California—are forced to spend billions of their own taxpayer dollars to address and combat the devastation resulting from an unsecured southern border; Whereas State and local law enforcement entities are overwhelmed by dangerous criminal activities associated with illegal border crossings, putting officers and their communities in danger while draining local resources