Bill Text: IL SR0746 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expresses support for the United States House of Representatives' action to impeach U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-02 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Terri Bryant [SR0746 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SR0746-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, President Joe Biden's Drug Enforcement | ||||||
3 | Administration(DEA) has reported a significant spike in | ||||||
4 | attempts to smuggle large amounts of fentanyl and illicit | ||||||
5 | fentanyl-containing tablets across the southern border, | ||||||
6 | resulting in higher incidents of fentanyl overdoses and deaths | ||||||
7 | in the United States; and
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8 | WHEREAS, President Biden's Federal Bureau of Investigation | ||||||
9 | (FBI) has confirmed that nearly 1.8 million "gotaways" have | ||||||
10 | entered the United States in recent years, and that a rising | ||||||
11 | number of individuals on the terrorist watchlist have crossed | ||||||
12 | the southern border into the United States; some but not all | ||||||
13 | have been apprehended, and the FBI is actively trying to | ||||||
14 | locate certain individuals from the terrorist watchlist who | ||||||
15 | remain in this country and pose a serious threat to national | ||||||
16 | security; and
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17 | WHEREAS, The influx of migrants into the United States has | ||||||
18 | led to over 35,000 of those who crossed the U.S. southern | ||||||
19 | border coming to the State of Illinois; and
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20 | WHEREAS, Historical data shows that most migrants who | ||||||
21 | enter the United States as asylum seekers will be denied | ||||||
22 | asylum and will not be granted lawful permanent status in our |
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1 | country; and
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2 | WHEREAS, The migrants in Illinois have placed tremendous | ||||||
3 | pressures on the Illinois Department of Human Services' budget | ||||||
4 | and other budget areas, leading to a diversion of hundreds of | ||||||
5 | millions in total state budget funds toward food, housing, | ||||||
6 | healthcare, and other wraparound services for migrants; and
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7 | WHEREAS, Comprehensive services for migrants are crowding | ||||||
8 | out other vital funding priorities for the State of Illinois, | ||||||
9 | including adequate care and service hours for the | ||||||
10 | intellectually and developmentally disabled community; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Illinois' nonpartisan Commission on Government | ||||||
12 | Forecasting and Accountability recently projected a nearly $1 | ||||||
13 | billion budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2025; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Illinois' Healthcare for Immigrant Program, which | ||||||
15 | provides free healthcare to non-citizens, has ballooned in | ||||||
16 | scope and cost to a point where it could cost as much as $1.1 | ||||||
17 | billion during the current fiscal year; and
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18 | WHEREAS, The flow of migrants into communities across the | ||||||
19 | State has resulted in increased class sizes in schools, which | ||||||
20 | adversely affects property taxpayers; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has intentionally | ||||||
2 | failed to perform his sworn duties by knowingly and | ||||||
3 | purposefully refusing to enforce immigration and border | ||||||
4 | control laws passed by the U.S. Congress; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Through his willful refusal to enforce laws | ||||||
6 | passed by the Congress and through his support of programs | ||||||
7 | that violate immigration laws, Secretary Mayorkas has | ||||||
8 | threatened national security by failing to prevent more than | ||||||
9 | 10 million migrants from coming into the United States, | ||||||
10 | including many suspected terrorists; and
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11 | WHEREAS, By refusing to comply with federal immigration | ||||||
12 | laws, Secretary Mayorkas has also violated the separation of | ||||||
13 | powers section of the Constitution; therefore, be it
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14 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | ||||||
15 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we support the United | ||||||
16 | States House of Representatives' action to impeach U.S. | ||||||
17 | Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas; | ||||||
18 | and be it further
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19 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
20 | delivered to the President of the United States, the U.S. | ||||||
21 | Senate Majority Leader, the U.S. Senate Minority Leader, the | ||||||
22 | U.S. Speaker of the House, the U.S. House of Representatives |
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