S2-119

What This Bill Does

The enrolled Secure America Act appropriates $69.545 billion for fiscal2026, available through September30,2029. Title I provides $22.95 billion for specified border, investigative, technology and other DHS work, with important exclusions for immigration and customs enforcement in the personnel and mission-support provisions. Title II separately adds $46.595 billion for immigration enforcement, removals and related support. The earlier calendar-version summary covered only Title I and therefore omitted most of the final funding. The $108.5 million child-exploitation allocation and the at-least-$350 million detainer allocation are included within their parent appropriations, not additional amounts to add again.

Who Benefits and How

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement gain staffing and operating resources. Homeland Security Investigations can expand child-victim identification through its Victim Identification Laboratory and Special Agent in Charge offices. Children subjected to exploitation may benefit from additional investigators, forensic analysts and law-enforcement training. Inspection-equipment suppliers, aviation contractors and information-technology providers may receive procurement opportunities. Participating State and local law-enforcement agencies can receive support for immigration cooperation and specified public-safety activities. These are funded capabilities, not proof of successful enforcement or measured reductions in crime.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Federal taxpayers finance $69.545 billion of additional budget authority. The DHS Secretary, CBP Commissioner and ICE Director must manage hiring, procurement, operations and restrictions over the multiyear availability period. Immigrants subject to enforcement can face greater arrest, detention and removal exposure, and affected families can experience disruption. Travelers and people in border areas face additional biometric or surveillance collection, with privacy risks dependent on deployment. In the targeted detainer allocation, covered adults include several criminal- or immigration-offense categories, including certain arrest or charge cases, not only people convicted of crimes. The release restriction applies to that funding paragraph and retains actions required by existing law; it is not a universal new detention statute.

Key Provisions

• Appropriates $9.55 billion for Border Patrol personnel and support for functions outside immigration enforcement and customs, and bars recruiting, hiring or training processing coordinators with these funds after October31,2028.
• Appropriates $7.45 billion for HSI personnel and operations outside the specified immigration/customs missions, including $108.5 million for child-exploitation investigators, forensic analysts and training.
• Appropriates $3.45 billion for inspection equipment, AI-assisted technology, air and marine platforms, surveillance, biometrics and narcotics interdiction; bars untested or unaccepted autonomous border-surveillance towers.
• Appropriates $2.5 billion in additional DHS Title I funding and, separately, $13.02 billion for CBP immigration-enforcement personnel and operations.
• Appropriates $31.075 billion for ICE immigration-enforcement personnel, removal transport, facilities, IT, fleet, legal representation and section287(g) cooperation.
• Requires at least $350 million within ICE funding for covered-adult detainer and custody operations in jurisdictions that do not meet the specified cooperation test; excludes Indian tribal governments from that noncooperating-jurisdiction category.
• Prohibits use of the paragraph-specific funds to facilitate release of covered adults except as required by existing law; qualifying cooperating jurisdictions must have an effective287(g) agreement or the specified filed compliance certification.
• Appropriates another $2.5 billion for Title II purposes or the referenced DHS personnel assignments and State/local homeland-security participation, including eligible reimbursements.