{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-boebert-introduces-censure-bill-against-president-biden-his-dereliction", "Rep. Boebert Introduces Censure Bill Against President Biden for his Dereliction of Duty at the Border", "2021-06-23", "2021", "2021-06", "Republican", "House", "CO", "Lauren Boebert", "B000825", "boebert.house.gov", "boebert", "https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Representative Lauren Boebert led 23 of her colleagues in introducing a bill to censure President Biden and hold him accountable for his dereliction of duty at our southern border.\n\nRepresentative Boebert stated: \u201cMy censure bill holds President Biden accountable for his actions\u2014or lack thereof\u2014at the border. Biden has refused to enforce the laws securing our border, he has refused to visit our border, his border czar Kamala has refused to visit the border, and his Secretary of Homeland Security is lying to the American people by saying that our border is closed. Not only has Biden done nothing to secure the border, he has actively made it worse by implementing policies that incentivize illegal immigration like amnesty, catch and release, and abolishing the remain in Mexico policy. The result of Biden\u2019s mismanagement is staggering, and the numbers speak for themselves.\u201d\n\nCongressman Andy Biggs said: \u201cThe Biden Administration is a complete disaster. President Biden and Vice President Harris have sent an unequivocal message that they prefer illegal immigrants over Americans. Their radical agenda has erased our southern border. Americans suffer from the Biden policy which has encouraged more than one million illegal border crossings this year which has produced increased human, sex, and drug trafficking. The American people condemn the Biden Administration\u2019s dereliction of duty.\u201d\n\nCongressman Barry Moore stated: \u201cEnsuring the integrity of our borders is one of the most fundamental duties of a president, yet President Biden has destroyed four years of progress at the border to satisfy far-left activists and cheap labor-loving globalists. His reckless determination to reverse every Trump administration policy regardless of the outcome has put every American family and our economy at risk. We must hold President Biden to account for putting politics over the people he has sworn an oath to protect.\u201d\n\nCongressman H. Morgan Griffith said: \u201cThe heightened crisis at the southern border is almost entirely one of President Biden\u2019s own doing. For purely ideological reasons, his Administration ended policies that were working to secure the border and protect the American people. When I went to the border, I saw unused materials that had already been contracted for lying by open gates and parts of the unfinished wall, the result of President Biden\u2019s illogical and wasteful decision to immediately stop all construction on the wall. The surge of illegal immigrants and contraband into the country that followed was entirely avoidable and reflects poorly on the Biden Administration\u2019s ability to fulfill its constitutional duties.\u201d\n\nCongressman Bob Good stated: \u201cThe absence of law and order is the breeding ground for criminal activity. Within the first four months of the Biden Administration, arrests for murder are already up an astonishing 1,133 percent at the southern border. President Biden\u2019s reckless approach to our southern border is manufacturing a humanitarian crisis. President Biden has undermined his oath and taken Congress\u2019 power into his own hands by granting blanket amnesty and failing to enforce the laws on the books. I am proud to join Congresswoman Boebert in calling for his censure.\u201d\n\nU.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Former Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan stated: \u201cPresident Biden is currently presiding over the greatest abandonment of immigration enforcement and border security this country has ever seen. Our border is in a historic crisis, solely due to his actions. Representative Lauren Boebert\u2019s resolution would rightly censure President Biden for ignoring immigration laws and refusing to address the crisis, while also calling for him to terminate an open borders radical who leads the very agency I once served in. President Biden can stop the crisis today. It is time for him to put the American people and rule of law first, and restore order at our border.\u201d\n\nFederation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) President Dan Stein stated: \u201cPresident Biden wasted no time in quickly ending the successful immigration policies of his predecessor. These rash decisions have led to a historic border crisis with no end in sight. If current trends hold, CBP will encounter over 1.3 million illegal aliens in the current fiscal year \u2013 dwarfing past totals. His Secretary of Homeland Security \u2013 open borders amnesty architect Alejandro Mayorkas \u2013 has presided over this complete abdication of immigration enforcement. He is unfit for his role, and this resolution rightly calls for his removal and the nomination of someone who will prioritize the safety and security of the American people while faithfully enforcing laws enacted by Congress. Representative Lauren Boebert\u2019s resolution is a well-timed, unified rebuke of President Biden's abandonment of immigration enforcement that has triggered a crisis, and FAIR urges all members of Congress to support it.\u201d\n\nNumbersUSA Director of Government Relations Rosemary Jenks stated: \u201cPresident Biden has made it abundantly clear that he refuses to take care that the immigration laws regarding the entry of aliens into the United States, as established by the Legislative Branch, are faithfully executed. While his legislative package to reward virtually every illegal alien, including criminals, in the United States with amnesty has languished in Congress, his administration has wasted no time in effectively dismantling ICE and CBP. The historic apprehension levels occurring at the border demonstrate that the world has received the message. Congress must finally step in and hold the President, along with Secretary Mayorkas, accountable for abdicating their Constitutional duties. NumbersUSA thanks Congresswoman Boebert for leading the charge.\u201d\n\nEagle Forum President Colleen Holcomb stated: \u201cDespite calls from both sides of the aisle to take action, the President and his administration continue to turn a blind eye to the massive amounts of immigrants flowing into our southern border. The White House sits idly by while children are being violently harmed by cartels who are given huge paychecks to smuggle them into the United States. This has continued for far too long. Biden's sweeping rollback of former President Trump's immigration policies will wreak havoc on our nation's economy, national security, and individual liberties. Representative Boebert's resolution to censure Biden is a necessary action to highlight his failure to execute his duties as President. Eagle Forum encourages all members of Congress to vote in favor of this piece of legislation.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nRepresentative Boebert traveled to the border in February, and she went back this month to see how much worse the crisis has gotten under President Biden\u2019s watch. He hasn\u2019t visited once, his border czar hasn\u2019t visited once, and his Secretary of Homeland Security falsely claims that the border is secure. Unlike Kamala, Rep. Boebert has actually been to the border, and it\u2019s obvious: it is a national security and humanitarian crisis. The numbers don\u2019t lie:\n\nUnder President Trump, there were 1,400 children in HHS custody at the border. When Rep. Boebert visited in June, there were 22,000.\n\nAlmost 1 million illegal aliens have been encountered by CBP since Biden took office, including a record-breaking 180,000 illegal aliens in May.\n\nSince Biden took office, CBP arrested 1,413 alien drug smugglers\u2014up from 386 last year.\n\nSince Biden took office, CBP arrested 40 alien murderers\u2014up from 3 last year.\n\nSince Biden took office, CBP arrested 353 alien sex offenders\u2014up from 156 last year.\n\nSince Biden took office, CBP arrested 1,118 aliens for DUIs\u2014up from 364 last year.\n\nIn just the first four months of Biden\u2019s term, enough fentanyl to kill every American four times over has been interdicted by Border Patrol.\n\nInstead of trying to fix the crisis, President Biden has proactively made it worse. One of Biden\u2019s first acts was to reinstate \u201ccatch and release,\u201d making it almost impossible for DHS to do its job. In President Trump\u2019s last month in office, Border Patrol released just 18 illegal immigrants, but in May, Biden released over 26,000 illegal immigrants into communities across the country. Since he took office, Biden has released almost 100,000 illegal aliens.\n\nArticle II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution imposes a duty on the President to \u201ctake Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,\u201d but President Biden has been derelict in his duty. Specifically, he has not enforced the Immigration and Nationality Act, which requires the President to detain illegal aliens and enforce border security measures. On February 18, 2021, President Biden exhibited even more disrespect for the law by allowing criminal aliens with felony records to remain in the United States.\n\nAdditionally, President Biden usurped legislative power from Congress and violated the Impoundment Control Act by unilaterally deciding that funds Congress had specifically appropriated to build the border wall would not be spent on building the wall.\n\nPresident Biden\u2019s egregious, unconstitutional actions threaten America\u2019s standing as a Constitutional Republic built on law and order. Rep. Boebert\u2019s bill reaffirms the constitutional precedent that the president is not free to ignore duly-passed laws enacted by Congress and to exercise control over appropriations. President Biden\u2019s unilateral actions are unlawful, and Rep. Boebert\u2019s legislation holds him accountable for threatening Americans\u2019 safety, disrespecting the law, and degrading the Office of the President.\n\nRep. Boebert\u2019s bill is supported by: American Principles Project, Citizens for Renewing America, Eagle Forum, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), Heritage Action, and NumbersUSA.\n\n23 Members of Congress joined Rep. Boebert introducing her bill including: Reps. 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