# What This Resolution Actually Does

This is a resolution—which means it's a statement of opinion from the House of Representatives rather than a law that would actually change anything. Think of it as an official declaration or protest rather than legislation with real-world consequences. The resolution criticizes the Biden administration's immigration policies and calls on the President to change course on border enforcement.

The resolution makes several claims about what it calls a border crisis. It states that over 7 million people have been encountered at the southwest border during the Biden administration, that about 3.3 million have been released into the country, and that over 1.7 million people have evaded border patrol entirely. It also claims that 312 people on a terrorist watchlist were encountered at the border—a number it says is much higher than during the previous administration. The resolution argues these policies have allowed dangerous criminals and fentanyl into American communities, and it blames specific administration decisions like ending the Migrant Protection Protocols (a Trump-era policy that kept asylum seekers in Mexico while their cases were processed) and halting border wall construction.

Since this is just a resolution expressing disapproval rather than actual legislation, it won't directly change any laws or policies. It won't increase or decrease border enforcement, won't allocate funding, and won't create new rules. However, it does represent how some members of Congress view immigration policy and could influence future legislative efforts. For most Americans, this resolution is mainly symbolic—it's a political statement about border policy disagreements rather than something that will immediately affect your daily life or how immigration enforcement actually works.

Denouncing the Biden administration's open-borders policies, condemning the national security and public safety crisis along the southwest border, and urging President Biden to end his administration's open-borders policies.

Moran, Nathaniel

 <p>This resolution condemns the Biden Administration's border policies and urges the President to end such policies.</p>