Serious Problems Call for Serious Solutions
More than 4 million individuals have been encountered at our southern border since President Biden took office. The Biden administration has released between 1-2 million of these individuals into the interior – not including approximately 1 million known “gotaways” since the start of FY21. At least 98 people on the terrorist screening database were apprehended in FY22 and more than 24,000 pounds of fentanyl have been seized since Biden took office.Customs and Border Protection agents and officers are strapped – made incapable of fulfilling their duties. Thousands of Americans across the country are falling victim to fentanyl, unaware of the substance they are even taking.
Texans are in imminent danger, and Texas leadership is right to use all powers under their authority to defend Texas’s border and its citizens. Taxpayers in Texas have spent more than $3 billion on border security operations. Texans are being pummeled by a nearly 2-year-long border surge – left to defend their lives and their property against violent criminals and murderous cartels. Fentanyl is killing tens of thousands of Americans and cartel-fueled crime is surging across the country. Customs and Border Protection agents and officers are strapped and hamstrung – rendered incapable of fulfilling their duties
Congress Needs to Live Up to Its Promises
House Republicans have made a Commitment to America to secure the southern border as part of our priority to create a “nation that is safe.” This is consistent with the American Security Task Force.
As members of Congress representing Texans, we commit to the same and offer these solutions to fulfill the goals of the Commitment to America. We commit to paying Texas back for border operations and damages. We commit to forcing the administration to enforce our current laws, and to leverage the power of the purse to ensure that it does. And we commit to immediately shifting policy to bring much needed security to our state and country.
We commit to securing our southern border and this is our framework to do just that.
The Texas Framework
Complete Physical Border Infrastructure
- Finish the border wall system.
- Ensure CBP can recruit and retain CBP agents and officers
- Build navigable roads along the border.
- Clear the Carrizo cane.
Fix Border Enforcement Policies
- Require DHS to turn-away all individuals at the border that cannot be detained for the pendency of their proceedings, including by using programs consistent with Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP).
- Defund all NGOs, entities, and programs actively encouraging the violation of our border security and related laws.
- End “Catch & Release” policies by closing the “loopholes” including the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) and the Flores Settlement.
- Reform asylum and credible fear policies to end fraud and limit asylum to those with actual fear of persecution.
Enforce Our Laws in the Interior
- End the loopholes DHS uses to release individuals into the interior illegally.
- End the abuse of prosecutorial discretion and the abuse of parole authority.
- End other alternatives to detention.
- Let ICE do their job – in accordance with existing law – to remove individuals not legally present in the U.S.
- Increase enforcement and penalties for criminal aliens and visa overstayers and remove violators of our laws.
Target Cartels & Criminal Organizations
- Designate cartels as terrorist or terrorist-equivalent organizations.
- Strengthen penalties for human trafficking and smuggling.
- Strengthen penalties for drug trafficking and smuggling, specifically for fentanyl.
Learn More about Texas’s Commitment to Secure the Border by downloading this pamphlet.
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Pledge Your Support for the Texas Plan!
Texas Leaders Who Have Pledged Their Support for the Texas Framework:
- Rep. Jodey Arrington
- Rep. Brian Babin
- Rep. Kevin Brady
- Rep. Michael Burgess
- Rep. John Carter
- Rep. Michael Cloud
- Rep. Dan Crenshaw
- Rep. Monica De La Cruz
- Rep. Jake Ellzey
- Rep. Pat Fallon
- Former Rep. Mayra Flores
- Former Rep. Louie Gohmert
- Rep. Lance Gooden
- Rep. Kay Granger
- Rep. Wesley Hunt
- Rep. Morgan Luttrell
- Rep. Ronny Jackson
- Rep. Michael McCaul
- Rep. Nathaniel Moran
- Rep. Troy Nehls
- Rep. August Pfluger
- Rep. Chip Roy
- Rep. Keith Self
- Rep. Pete Sessions
- Rep. Van Taylor
- Rep. Randy Weber
- Rep. Roger Williams
- Rep. Beth Van Duyne
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