Bill Text: HI HCR63 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging The Governor To Send Five Hundred Hawaii National Guard Members To Assist The Texas National Guard In Policing The United States-mexico Border.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-08 - Referred to CMV, JHA, referral sheet 18 [HCR63 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-HCR63-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	63
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

urging the governor to send five hundred hawaii national guard members to assist the texas national guard in policing the united states-mexico border.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, since the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of migrants have attempted to illegally enter the United States through the United States-Mexico border; and

 

     WHEREAS, the United States Border Patrol reports monthly the number of "encounters" between Border Patrol officers and migrants, including migrants the officers apprehended or expelled from the country; and

 

     WHEREAS, in December 2023, Border Patrol officers reported more than two hundred fifty thousand encounters, representing a record high; and

 

     WHEREAS, Border Patrol reports that the migrants attempting to illegally enter the United States at the southern border are not just from Mexico but also from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and other countries; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii is home to approximately fifty-one thousand undocumented persons, including approximately three thousand undocumented persons from Mexico and Central America; and

 

     WHEREAS, a large percentage of the illegal drugs in the United States, including fentanyl, also enters the country through Mexico; and

 

     WHEREAS, according to the National Institutes of Health in 2020, Hawaii experienced two hundred seventy-four overdose-related deaths, many of which involved fentanyl; and

 

     WHEREAS, since 2021, thousands of members of the Texas National Guard have been assigned to help police the border between the United States and Mexico; and

 

     WHEREAS, at least fourteen states, including Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming, have also sent National Guard members to the United States-Mexico border to assist the Texas National Guard; and

 

     WHEREAS, it is in Hawaii's best interest to help prevent undocumented migrants and illegal drugs from entering the United States; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2024, the Senate concurring, that the Governor is urged to send five hundred Hawaii National Guard members to assist the Texas National Guard in policing the United States‑Mexico border; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor of Hawaii, Adjutant General of Hawaii, Governor of Texas, and Adjutant General of Texas.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Hawaii National Guard; Texas National Guard; United States-Mexico Border