Sec. 201. Definitions

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In this title: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate ; and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives . The term cocaine removal effectiveness rate means the percentage that results from dividing the amount of cocaine removed by the Department of Homeland Security’s maritime security components inside or outside a transit zone, as the case may be, by the total documented cocaine flow rate as contained in Federal drug databases.

The term Consequence Delivery System means the series of consequences applied to persons illegally entering the United States by the Border Patrol to prevent illegal border crossing recidivism. The term got away means an illegal border crosser who, after making an illegal entry into the United States, is not turned back or apprehended. The term high traffic areas means sectors along the northern and southern borders of the United States that are within the responsibility of the Border Patrol that have the most illicit cross-border activity, informed through situational awareness.

The term illegal border crossing effectiveness rate means the percentage that results from dividing the number of apprehensions and turn backs by the number of apprehensions, turn backs, and got aways. The data used by the Secretary of Homeland Security to determine such rate shall be collected and reported in a consistent and standardized manner across all Border Patrol sectors. The term major violator means a person or entity that has engaged in serious criminal activities at any land, air, or sea port of entry, including possession of illicit drugs, smuggling of prohibited products, human smuggling, weapons possession, use of fraudulent United States documents, or other offenses serious enough to result in arrest.

The term operational control means a condition in which there is a not lower than 90 percent illegal border crossing effectiveness rate, informed by situational awareness, and a significant reduction in the movement of illicit drugs and other contraband through such areas is being achieved. The term situational awareness means knowledge and an understanding of current illicit cross-border activity, including cross-border threats and trends concerning illicit trafficking and unlawful crossings along the international borders of the United States and in the maritime environment, and the ability to forecast future shifts in such threats and trends.

The term transit zone means the sea corridors of the western Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern Pacific Ocean through which undocumented migrants and illicit drugs transit, either directly or indirectly, to the United States. The term turn back means an illegal border crosser who, after making an illegal entry into the United States, returns to the country from which such crosser entered.