Bill Details
HR.1930 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-06 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
Introduced Date
2025-03-06
Policy Area
Immigration
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
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This bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to study whether there are enough staff members working along the southern border and how well those workers are being used. The review would focus on Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. It would look at current staffing plans, how often the agencies depend on overtime and temporary assignments, what is causing staffing problems, and where there are gaps in people, technology, and risk management. DHS would then have to send Congress a report with its findings and ideas for improving staffing.
- DHS would have 90 days after the bill becomes law to complete the staffing assessment.
- The study would examine how CBP, ICE, and USCIS deploy personnel at the southern border and across the country.
- It would also look at problems inside and outside DHS that make workloads harder, and separate issues that can be fixed by the agencies from those that may need action by Congress.
- Within 180 days after the assessment is finished, DHS would have to report the results and explain how the agencies should carry out the recommendations.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1930 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1930
To require an assessement of CBP and ICE staffing at the southern
border, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 6, 2025
Ms. Johnson of Texas (for herself, Mr. Case, Mr. Levin, Mr. Veasey, and
Mr. Stanton) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the
Judiciary, 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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A BILL
To require an assessement of CBP and ICE staffing at the southern
border, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Border Workforce Improvement Act''.
SEC. 2. ASSESSMENT ON DHS STAFFING NEEDS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER.
(a) Study.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with
the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the
Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the
Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),
shall conduct an assessment of staffing needs at the southern border of
the United States.
(b) Elements.--The assessment under subsection (a) shall include
the following:
(1) Reviews of existing staffing models and methodologies
for deploying personnel of CBP, ICE, and USCIS at the southern
border and across the country, and the effect of continuously
relying on details and overtime to temporarily fill staffing
gaps.
(2) Factors within and outside of the control of the
Department of Homeland Security that are affecting workloads
and exacerbating staffing challenges to identify solutions CBP,
ICE, and USCIS can accomplish, as well as solutions that
require congressional action.
(3) An identification of critical capability gaps in human
resources, new technology integration, and streamlined risk
management systems across CBP, ICE, and USCIS.
(c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date on which the
assessment under subsection (a) is complete, the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
report that includes the following:
(1) The findings of such assessment.
(2) A description of how the Secretary, the Commissioner of
CBP, the Director of ICE, and the Director of USCIS should
implement the recommendations contained in such assessment.
(d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this section,
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(1) the Committee of Homeland Security and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
(2) the Committee of Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
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