Sec. 524. Expansion of criminal alien repatriation programs
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall increase the number of criminal and illegal alien repatriation flights from the United States conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Air Operations by not less than 15 percent more than the number of such flights operated, and authorized to be operated, under existing appropriations and funding on the date of the enactment of this Act.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue a directive to expand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Air Operations (ICE Air Ops) so that ICE Air Ops provides additional services with respect to aliens who are illegally present in the United States. Such expansion shall include— increasing the daily operations of ICE Air Ops with buses and air hubs in the top 5 geographic regions along the southern border; allocating a set number of seats for such aliens for each metropolitan area; and allowing a metropolitan area to trade or give some of seats allocated to such area under paragraph
(2)for such aliens to other areas in the region of such area based on the transportation needs of each area. In addition to the amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated, there is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2021 to carry out this section.