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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
                     HOUSE CONCURRENT
                      RESOLUTION NO. 48
                             102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                          INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCMULLEN.
    5405H.01I                                                      DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk



           WHEREAS, security and law enforcement agencies have repeatedly identified the
 2 entire border between the United States and Mexico as a major national security concern; and
 3
 4         WHEREAS, unauthorized immigration through the border of the United States and
 5 Mexico has reached a record high with approximately 2.4 million illegal border crossing
 6 apprehensions in the 2023 fiscal year; and
 7
 8         WHEREAS, other states, including Arkansas, Tennessee, Iowa, and South Dakota,
 9 have sent National Guard members to protect the borders of the United States, prevent illegal
10 entry, and deter illicit activity and other threats; and
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12         WHEREAS, resources of the state of Missouri, including the Missouri National
13 Guard, are or may be needed to help secure the border of the United States in the state of
14 Texas; and
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16         WHEREAS, Missouri National Guard members can provide operational,
17 surveillance, engineering, administrative, and mechanical support to border, national, and
18 state security and law enforcement agencies; and
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20         WHEREAS, the State of Missouri should assist in the efforts to secure the border of
21 the United States in the state of Texas:
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23         NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the House of
24 Representatives of the One Hundred Second General Assembly, Second Regular Session, the
25 Senate concurring therein, hereby urge the Governor of the state of Missouri to order the
26 Adjutant General of the state of Missouri, or his designee, to call upon and order into active
27 service such portions of the organized militia, including the Missouri National Guard, to aid
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28   the officials of Texas in the protection of the border of the United States and to take such
29   action and employ such equipment as may be necessary in support of security and law
30   enforcement authorities in the defense of the border of United States; and
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32          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of
33   Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for
34   Governor Mike Parson.
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