Sec. 205. Border security resources
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Consistent with the Southern Border Security Strategy required under section 203, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, shall upgrade existing technological assets and equipment, and procure and deploy additional technological assets and equipment on the southern border. Consistent with the Southern Border Security Strategy required under section 203, the Secretary, shall upgrade existing physical and tactical infrastructure of the Department of Homeland Security, and construct and acquire additional physical and tactical infrastructure on the southern border, including the following:
U.S. Border Patrol stations. U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints. Forward operating bases. Monitoring stations. Mobile command centers. Land border port of entry improvements. Other necessary facilities, structures, and properties. Consistent with the Southern Border Security Strategy required under section 203, the Secretary is authorized to increase the number of trained active-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers deployed on the southern border, including— officers serving in the Office of the Border Patrol; officers serving in the Office of Air and Marine; and officers serving in the Office of Field Operations, including officers stationed at land border ports of entry.
When exercising authority under this section, the Secretary is authorized— to conduct enhanced recruiting operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel; to conduct additional training academies for U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel; and to promulgate regulations allowing for the expedited training of U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel. Amounts authorized to be appropriated under this section may be expended, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, for the Governor of a State to order any units or personnel of the National Guard of such State to perform operations and missions under section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, on the southern border.
National Guard units and personnel deployed under paragraph
(1)may be assigned such operations, including missions specified in paragraph (3), as may be necessary to provide assistance for operations on the southern border. The duty of National Guard personnel performing operations and missions described in subparagraph
(A)shall be full-time duty under title 32, United States Code. The operations and missions assigned under paragraph
(2)shall include the temporary authority— to provide assistance for law enforcement, including the interdiction of human trafficking, illicit drugs, and contraband crossing the border; to assist in the provision of humanitarian relief; to increase ground-based mobile surveillance systems; to deploy additional unmanned aerial systems and manned aircraft sufficient to maintain continuous surveillance of the southern border; to deploy and provide capability for radio communications interoperability between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies; to construct checkpoints along the southern border to bridge the gap to long-term permanent checkpoints; to provide assistance to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, particularly in rural, high-trafficked areas, as designated by the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; to enhance law enforcement rotary wing operations supporting quick reaction forces, medical air evacuations, and incident awareness and assessment operations; and to provide equipment and training to law enforcement agencies. The Secretary of Defense shall deploy such materiel and equipment and logistical support as may be necessary to ensure success of the operations and missions conducted by the National Guard under this subsection. National Guard personnel deployed under paragraph
(1)shall not be included in— the calculation to determine compliance with limits on end strength for National Guard personnel; or limits on the number of National Guard personnel that may be placed on active duty for operational support under section 115 of title 10, United States Code. There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 such sums as may be necessary to carry out this subsection. The Federal Emergency Management Agency shall enhance law enforcement preparedness, humanitarian responses, and operational readiness along the southern border through Operation Stonegarden. For purposes of paragraph (1), amounts made available under this section shall be allocated for grants and reimbursements to State and local governments in Border Patrol Sectors on the southern border for personnel, overtime, travel, costs related to combating illegal immigration and drug smuggling, and costs related to providing humanitarian relief to unaccompanied alien children who have entered the United States. Allocations for grants and reimbursements to State and local governments under this paragraph shall be made by the Federal Emergency Management Agency through a competitive process. There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 such sums as may be necessary to carry out this subsection.