[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 604 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 604

  A resolution unequivocally condemning nationwide violent attacks on 
          Federal agents enforcing America's immigration laws.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2025

    Mr. Issa (for himself and Mr. Calvert) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and Ways and Means, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  A resolution unequivocally condemning nationwide violent attacks on 
          Federal agents enforcing America's immigration laws.

Whereas after 4 years of the Biden Administration's open borders and systematic 
        enabling of millions of illegal migrants to enter the homeland and 
        remain shielded from deportation, the Trump Administration is seeing 
        that America's laws against criminal illegals are being faithfully 
        executed;
Whereas the Trump Administration's policies have resulted in an almost total 
        cessation of illegal border crossings, the most significant number of 
        deportations in recent history, and, most importantly, the apprehension 
        of hundreds of the most-wanted criminally violent illegals;
Whereas in many areas of the country, the brave men and women on the front lines 
        representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as well as 
        Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are facing violent mobs of both citizens 
        and illegal aliens who have not only repeatedly blocked, menaced, and 
        confronted law enforcement, but also attempted to burn and kill our ICE 
        and CBP agents as they carried out their proper and legal duties;
Whereas, on May 2, 2025, 3 San Jose-based ICE deportation officers were 
        assaulted and injured by a Nicaraguan national while attempting to take 
        him into custody on a warrant for his removal and deportation from the 
        United States;
Whereas, on June 7, 2025, in Los Angeles, more than 1,000 rioters surrounded a 
        Federal law enforcement building, assaulted numerous ICE officers, 
        slashed tires, defaced public buildings, and destroyed private property;
Whereas, on June 11, 2025, 2 assailants were arrested for assaulting Federal 
        officers in Santa Ana, California;
Whereas, on both June 14, 2025, and July 4, 2025, multiple officers were injured 
        at a Portland, Oregon ICE office where rioters smashed windows, forcibly 
        entered the facility, launched fireworks, set off smoke grenades, and 
        threw rocks at Federal law enforcement;
Whereas, on July 1, 2025, more than 40 individuals in Los Angeles were charged 
        with violent crimes against ICE enforcement, including attempted murder, 
        assaults on peace officers, rioting, vandalism, and animal cruelty;
Whereas, on July 4, 2025, a group of more than a dozen rioters violently 
        attacked the ICE Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, fired 
        dozens of rounds at personnel and wounded a local police officer, while 
        also vandalizing vehicles and equipment at the facility with threatening 
        messages to ICE officials;
Whereas, on July 7, 2025, an assailant fired dozens of rounds at the entrance of 
        the United States Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen, Texas, wounding 
        a local police officer and a Border Patrol agent, and as a result, the 
        FBI has arrested 10 suspects and the Johnson County Sheriff has 
        confirmed that each now face local charges of terrorism, aggravated 
        assault on a public servant with a deadly weapon, or aggravated assault 
        with a deadly weapon against a peace officer;
Whereas House and Senate Democrats have introduced the No Masks for ICE Act, 
        which would prohibit agents from protecting their identities by wearing 
        face coverings during enforcement action;
Whereas numerous law enforcement agents have repeatedly and publicly stated that 
        they fear retaliation from criminal illegals and others who have pledged 
        to target the agents' families by learning their identities; and
Whereas elected Democrats have proclaimed that CBP and ICE are ``Donald Trump's 
        modern-day gestapo,'' ``like a terrorist force,'' ``a rogue agency that 
        should not exist,'' and responsible for an ``unprecedented flood of 
        extremism being unleashed on the American people'': Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes that the heroic men and women of ICE and CBP 
        work long hours every day to enforce our laws, detain and 
        deport criminal illegal aliens from the United States, and 
        protect law-abiding American citizens;
            (2) unequivocally condemns all acts of violence perpetrated 
        by criminal illegals and others against Federal, State, and 
        local law enforcement during the incidents cited in this 
        resolution; and
            (3) calls on local, State, and Federal elected officials to 
        support the law enforcement representatives and partners of the 
        Federal Government as it duly and officially enforces our laws 
        against illegal immigration and violent crime.
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