Secure America Act
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Secure America Act . I Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 101. U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel (a) Personnel In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $9,550,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, to hire, pay, train, and equip Border Patrol agents and Border Patrol support personnel to conduct functions other than immigration enforcement and customs functions. (b) Restriction None of the funds made available by subsection (a) may be used to recruit, hire, or train personnel for the duties of processing coordinators after October 31, 2028. 102. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $7,450,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, to hire, pay, train, and equip Homeland Security Investigations agents and support personnel and to provide other necessary expenses for Homeland Security Investigations’ mission support and operations and maintenance, of which $108,500,000 shall be used to hire, pay, and equip additional child exploitation investigators and forensics analysts at the Victim Identification Laboratory of the Child Exploitation Investigations Unit of Homeland Security Investigations and at the Homeland Security Investigations offices of the Special Agent in Charge to support the identification and rescue of victims of child sexual exploitation and abuse, and to train such personnel and State and local law enforcement regarding identifying victims of child sexual exploitation and abuse within the Homeland Security Investigations Cyber Crimes Center, except that funds provided in this section shall be used for functions other than those related to Homeland Security Investigations’ immigration enforcement and customs enforcement missions. 103. Border security, technology, and screening (a) In general In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2029, $3,450,000,000 for the following: (1) Procurement and integration of new nonintrusive inspection equipment and associated civil works, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other innovative technologies, as well as other mission support, to combat the entry or exit of illicit narcotics at ports of entry and along the southwest, northern, and maritime borders. (2) Air and Marine operations’ upgrading and procurement of new platforms for rapid air and marine response capabilities. (3) Upgrades and procurement of border surveillance technologies along the southwest, northern, and maritime borders. (4) Necessary expenses, including the deployment of technology, relating to the biometric entry and exit system under section 7208 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 ( 8 U.S.C. 1365b ). (5) Enhancing border security by combating drug trafficking, including fentanyl and its precursor chemicals, at the southwest, northern, and maritime borders. (6) Necessary expenses for U.S. Customs and Border Protection's mission support and operations and maintenance for functions other than those related to its immigration enforcement and customs missions. (b) Restrictions None of the funds made available under subsection (a) may be used for the procurement or deployment of surveillance towers along the southwest border and northern border that have not been tested and accepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to deliver autonomous capabilities. (c) Definition of autonomous In this section, with respect to capabilities, the term autonomous means a system designed to apply artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, or other algorithms to accurately detect, identify, classify, and track items of interest in real time such that the system can make operational adjustments without the active engagement of personnel or continuous human command or control. 104. Additional Department of Homeland Security appropriations In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $2,500,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for the purposes provided in this title. May 20, 2026 Read twice and placed on the calendar
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This title would provide reconciliation funding for fiscal year 2026, in addition to money already available, drawn from the Treasury out of funds not otherwise appropriated, staying available until September 30, 2029 unless noted otherwise.
Section 101 would appropriate $9,550,000,000 to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to hire, pay, train, and equip Border Patrol agents and Border Patrol support personnel for functions other than immigration enforcement and customs functions. None of that money could be used to recruit, hire, or train personnel for the duties of processing coordinators after October 31, 2028.
Section 102 would appropriate $7,450,000,000 to the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hire, pay, train, and equip Homeland Security Investigations agents and support personnel and to cover other necessary expenses for Homeland Security Investigations' mission support and its operations and maintenance. Of that amount, $108,500,000 would have to be used to hire, pay, and equip additional child exploitation investigators and forensics analysts at the Victim Identification Laboratory of the Child Exploitation Investigations Unit of Homeland Security Investigations and at the Homeland Security Investigations offices of the Special Agent in Charge, to support identifying and rescuing victims of child sexual exploitation and abuse, and to train that personnel and State and local law enforcement to identify such victims within the Homeland Security Investigations Cyber Crimes Center. All of the funds appropriated by this section would have to be used for functions other than Homeland Security Investigations' immigration enforcement and customs enforcement missions.
Section 103 would appropriate $3,450,000,000 to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for: procuring and integrating new nonintrusive inspection equipment and associated civil works, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other innovative technologies, plus other mission support, to combat illicit narcotics entering or exiting through ports of entry and along the southwest, northern, and maritime borders; upgrading and procuring new Air and Marine operations platforms for rapid air and marine response; upgrading and procuring border surveillance technologies along the southwest, northern, and maritime borders; necessary expenses, including deploying technology, related to the biometric entry and exit system under section 7208 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (8 U.S.C. 1365b); enhancing border security by combating drug trafficking, including fentanyl and its precursor chemicals, at the southwest, northern, and maritime borders; and necessary expenses for U.S. Customs and Border Protection's mission support and its operations and maintenance for functions other than its immigration enforcement and customs missions. None of that money could be used to procure or deploy surveillance towers along the southwest border or northern border unless U.S. Customs and Border Protection has tested and accepted those towers as able to deliver autonomous capabilities. For this section, "autonomous" means a system built to use artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, or other algorithms to detect, identify, classify, and track items of interest in real time well enough that the system can make operational adjustments on its own, without a person actively engaged or in continuous human command or control.
Section 104 would appropriate $2,500,000,000 to the Secretary of Homeland Security for the purposes described elsewhere in this title.
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