Sec. 14. Authorization to hire additional U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel
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The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall hire, train, and assign not fewer than 600 new Office of Field Operations Officers (above the current attrition level) during every fiscal year until the total number of Office of Field Operations Officers equals and sustains the requirements identified each year in the Workload Staffing Model. The Commissioner is authorized to hire, train, and assign support staff, including technicians, to perform non-law enforcement administrative functions to support the new Office of Field Operations officers hired pursuant to subsection (a).
Not later than September 30, 2021, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall hire, train, and assign to duty 631 U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialists to ports of entry along the southern and northern borders of the United States. In calculating the number of Office of Field Operations Officers needed at each port of entry through the Workload Staffing Model, the Commissioner shall— rely on data collected regarding the inspections and other activities conducted at each such port of entry; and consider volume from seasonal surges, other projected changes in commercial and passenger volumes, the most current commercial forecasts, and other relevant information.
If the Commissioner does not hire 600 additional Office of Field Operations officers pursuant to subsection
(a)during fiscal year 2020, or during any subsequent fiscal year in which the hiring requirements set forth in the Workload Staffing Model have not been achieved, the Comptroller General of the United States shall— conduct a review of U.S. Customs and Border Protection hiring practices to determine the reasons that such requirements were not achieved and other issues related to hiring by U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and submit a report to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives that describes the results of the review conducted under paragraph (1). The Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall hire, train, and assign— not fewer than 1,000 new Enforcement and Removal Operations Officers; not fewer than 665 Enforcement and Removal Operations support personnel to address case management responsibilities; not fewer than 128 attorneys in the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor; and not fewer than 41 support staff within the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor to assist immigration judges within the Executive Office for Immigration Review with removal, asylum, and custody determination proceedings.