Sec. 2. Unlawfully hindering immigration, border, and customs controls
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Chapter 9 of title II of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1351 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: Any person who knowingly transmits, by any means, to another person the location, movement, or activities of any Federal, State, local, or tribal law enforcement agency with the intent to further a Federal crime relating to United States immigration, customs, controlled substances, agriculture, monetary instruments, or other border controls shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
Any person who knowingly and without lawful authorization destroys, alters, or damages any fence, barrier, sensor, camera, or other physical or electronic device deployed by the Federal Government to control the border or a port of entry or otherwise seeks to construct, excavate, or make any structure intended to defeat, circumvent, or evade any such fence, barrier, sensor camera, or other physical or electronic device deployed by the Federal Government to control the border or a port of entry— shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both; and if, at the time of the offense, the person uses or carries a firearm or who, in furtherance of any such crime, possesses a firearm, that person shall be fined under such title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
Any person who attempts or conspires to violate subsection
(a)or
(b)shall be punished in the same manner as a person who completes a violation of such subsection. . The table of contents in the first section of the Immigration and Nationality Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 294 the following: Sec. 295. Unlawfully hindering immigration, border, and customs controls. . Section 924(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— by striking For purposes of this subsection, each place such phrase appears; in paragraph (1)— in subparagraph (A), by inserting , alien smuggling crime, after crime of violence each place that term appears; and in subparagraph (D)(ii), by inserting , alien smuggling crime, after crime of violence ; in paragraph (3), by redesignating subparagraphs
(A)and
(B)as clauses
(i)and (ii), respectively, and adjusting the margin accordingly; by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and
(4)as subparagraphs (D), (C), and (B), respectively, and adjusting the margin accordingly; by transferring subparagraph (B), as redesignated, to appear before subparagraph (C), as redesignated; by transferring subparagraph (D), as redesignated, to appear after subparagraph (C), as redesignated; by redesignating paragraph
(5)as paragraph
(2)and transferring the redesignated paragraph to appear after paragraph (1); by inserting after paragraph (2), as redesignated and transferred, the following: As used in this subsection— the term alien smuggling crime means any felony punishable under section 274(a), 277, or 278 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1324(a) , 1327, and 1328); ; and in paragraph (3), as redesignated— in subparagraph (B), as redesignated, by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and in subparagraph (C)(ii), as redesignated, by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and . Section 707(c)(1)(B) of title 11, United States Code, is amended by striking section 924(c)(2) and inserting section 924(c)(3)(D) ; Title 18, United States Code, is amended— in section 844(o)— by striking section 924(c)(3) and inserting section 924(c)(3)(C) ; and by striking section 924(c)(2) and inserting section 924(c)(3)(D) ; in section 1028(b)(3)(B), by striking section 924(c)(3) and inserting section 924(c)(3)(C) ; and in section 4042(b)(3)— in subparagraph (A), by striking section 924(c)(2) and inserting section 924(c)(3)(D) ; and in subparagraph (B), by striking section 924(c)(3) and inserting section 924(c)(3)(C) . Section 3(1) of the Interstate Transportation of Dangerous Criminals Act of 2000 ( 42 U.S.C. 13726a(1) ) is amended by striking section 924(c)(3) and inserting section 924(c)(3)(C) . Section 3298 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— by inserting or 295 after 274(a) ; and by inserting ( after 8 U.S.C. 1324(a) and 1363b) Immigration and Nationality Act .
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