Sec. 8. National Guard deployments in response to large-scale border crossings and resources for State and local border security efforts
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Section 902 of title 32, United States Code, is amended— by striking The Secretary and inserting the following: The Secretary ; by striking the comma after Secretary ; and by adding at the end the following: If the governor of a State deploys personnel of the National Guard in response to the apprehension of 6,000 or more unaccompanied alien children (as defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 279(g) )) who are nationals of countries other than Canada or Mexico, the Secretary of Defense shall reimburse such State for any expenses incurred by the State as a result of such deployment. .
The Federal Emergency Management Agency shall enhance law enforcement preparedness, humanitarian responses, and operational readiness along the Southern border through Operation Stonegarden. Amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph
(3)shall be used for grants and reimbursements to State and local governments in Border Patrol sectors on the Southern border for— personnel, overtime, travel, and other 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. Grants and reimbursements authorized subparagraph
(A)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. Any amounts appropriated pursuant to subparagraph
(A)shall be offset by an equal reduction in the amounts appropriated for other purposes. If the reductions required under subparagraph
(B)are not made during the 180-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, there shall be rescinded, from all unobligated amounts appropriated for any Federal agency (other than the Department of Defense), on a proportionate basis, an amount equal to the amount appropriated pursuant to subparagraph (A). Section 902 of title 32, United States Code, as amended by subsection (a), is further amended by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding section 1385 of title 18 or any other provision of law, National Guard personnel who are deployed to conduct homeland defense activities near an international border are authorized to detain any person, and transfer such person to the custody of U.S. Border Patrol or another appropriate Federal law enforcement agency, if there is probable cause that such person has violated any Federal law relating to— immigration; drug trafficking; human trafficking; or terrorism. .
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