To secure the international borders of the United States, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security and CBP to restart border wall construction, strengthen southern border barrier requirements, expand surveillance and port technology, add staffing and flight-hour requirements, collect DNA and biometric information, publish detailed border statistics, and restrict funding for processing migrants between ports of entry.
Who Benefits and How
Border enforcement agencies, border security technology vendors, construction contractors, local law enforcement agencies, and some States benefit from new mandates, grants, procurement, and reporting. CBP personnel may benefit from retention bonuses and spiritual-readiness reporting.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Migrants and asylum seekers face higher barriers to entry, more biometric collection, more criminal background checks, fewer processing pathways, and broader detention or enforcement exposure. DHS and CBP face new operational mandates and reporting burdens. Border communities, landowners, and environmental interests may face wall construction and vegetation-removal impacts.
Key Provisions
- Resumes border wall construction and strengthens barrier requirements
- Requires CBP technology investment, major acquisition management, radios, surveillance, and license plate reader upgrades
- Authorizes Border Patrol retention bonuses and staffing levels
- Establishes Operation Stonegarden grants for border-area law enforcement
- Requires Air and Marine Operations flight hours and border strategy reports
- Restricts processing of migrants arriving between ports of entry
- Requires DNA, biometric, criminal-background, and operational statistics measures
- Bars TSA acceptance of certain identification documents and limits CBP One use
- Offsets funding from alternatives-to-detention and detention ombudsman programs
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Expands physical, technological, personnel, and reporting requirements for U.S. border security, including border wall construction, CBP technology upgrades, staffing, grants, biometric collection, operational statistics, and limits on processing migrants between ports of entry.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Border Security, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Appropriations
Primary Purpose
Expands physical, technological, personnel, and reporting requirements for U.S. border security, including border wall construction, CBP technology upgrades, staffing, grants, biometric collection, operational statistics, and limits on processing migrants between ports of entry.
Policy Domains
Border security operations and infrastructure
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Border enforcement agencies
- Border security contractors
- State and local law enforcement agencies
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Migrants arriving between ports of entry
- Border communities and landowners
- DHS reporting offices
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedAdditional sponsors: Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bean …
Reported from the Committee on Homeland Security with an amendment
Committees on Ways and Means and the Judiciary discharged; committed …
Mr. Green of Tennessee (for himself, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Border Patrol agents, Border Patrol operations, Border drug interdiction agencies
Border Patrol agents, Border Patrol operations, Border drug interdiction agencies, CBP Air and Marine Operations, CBP law enforcement applicants, CBP officers and Border Patrol agents, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security and CBP, Department of Homeland Security and CBP reporting offices, Department of Homeland Security biometric collection offices, Department of Homeland Security digital processing programs, Federal law enforcement and identity screening agencies, Federal law enforcement screening agencies, Immigration enforcement agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection workforce planners face effects in multiple directions
Congressional homeland security oversight committees, DHS employees opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Department of Homeland Security management
Congressional homeland security oversight committees, DHS employees opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Department of Homeland Security management, Federal Emergency Management Agency grant administrators, Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, Transportation Security Administration face effects in multiple directions
Alternatives to detention program participants, Migrants and smugglers at the border, Migrants and travelers subject to border surveillance
Alternatives to detention program participants, Migrants and smugglers at the border, Migrants and travelers subject to border surveillance, Migrants arriving between ports of entry, Migrants crossing between ports of entry, Migrants processed at the border, Migrants seeking appointments or processing through CBP One, Migrants subject to background checks, Migrants transported from the southwest border, Travelers using prohibited identification documents face effects in multiple directions
Border security technology vendors
Border security technology vendors faces effects in multiple directions
Border wall construction contractors
Border wall construction contractors faces effects in multiple directions
Border landowners and environmental interests
Border landowners and environmental interests faces effects in multiple directions
State and local law enforcement agencies near borders
State and local law enforcement agencies near borders faces effects in multiple directions
Riparian habitat and conservation interests, Vegetation removal contractors
Riparian habitat and conservation interests, Vegetation removal contractors face effects in multiple directions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "commissioner"
- → Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- "administrator"
- → Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration or FEMA where specified
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "comptroller_general"
- → Comptroller General of the United States
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
A Federal officer covered by the title 5 law-enforcement officer definitions.
A DHS acquisition program expected to require eventual total expenditure above a specified threshold.
A DHS grant program for eligible law enforcement agencies supporting border security activities.
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