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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1930 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require an assessement of CBP and ICE staffing at the southern border, |
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| 6 | 6 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH6, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. J |
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| 10 | 10 | | OHNSONof Texas (for herself, Mr. CASE, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. VEASEY, and |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. S |
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| 12 | 12 | | TANTON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 13 | 13 | | Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on |
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| 14 | 14 | | the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, |
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| 15 | 15 | | in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris- |
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| 16 | 16 | | diction of the committee concerned |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To require an assessement of CBP and ICE staffing at |
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| 19 | 19 | | the southern border, and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Border Workforce Im-4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | provement Act’’. 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. ASSESSMENT ON DHS STAFFING NEEDS AT THE 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SOUTHERN BORDER. 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (a) S |
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| 31 | 31 | | TUDY.—Not later than 90 days after the date 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Security, in coordination with the Commissioner of U.S. 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Director of 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | the Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Services (USCIS), shall conduct an assessment of staffing 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | needs at the southern border of the United States. 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (b) E |
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| 40 | 40 | | LEMENTS.—The assessment under subsection 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (a) shall include the following: 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (1) Reviews of existing staffing models and 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | methodologies for deploying personnel of CBP, ICE, 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | and USCIS at the southern border and across the 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | country, and the effect of continuously relying on de-16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | tails and overtime to temporarily fill staffing gaps. 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (2) Factors within and outside of the control of 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | the Department of Homeland Security that are af-19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | fecting workloads and exacerbating staffing chal-20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | lenges to identify solutions CBP, ICE, and USCIS 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | can accomplish, as well as solutions that require con-22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | gressional action. 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (3) An identification of critical capability gaps 24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | in human resources, new technology integration, and 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | streamlined risk management systems across CBP, 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ICE, and USCIS. 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (c) R |
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| 61 | 61 | | EPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | on which the assessment under subsection (a) is complete, 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | appropriate congressional committees a report that in-6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | cludes the following: 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (1) The findings of such assessment. 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (2) A description of how the Secretary, the 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Commissioner of CBP, the Director of ICE, and the 10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Director of USCIS should implement the rec-11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ommendations contained in such assessment. 12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (d) A |
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| 72 | 72 | | PPROPRIATECONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES 13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | D |
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| 74 | 74 | | EFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-14 |
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| 75 | 75 | | gressional committees’’ means— 15 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (1) the Committee of Homeland Security and 16 |
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| 77 | 77 | | the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 17 |
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| 78 | 78 | | Representatives; and 18 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (2) the Committee of Homeland Security and 19 |
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| 80 | 80 | | Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Appro-20 |
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| 81 | 81 | | priations of the Senate. 21 |
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