New House and Senate Bill Requires DHS to Develop, Implement Border Control Strategy
House and Senate lawmakers introduced a bill April 9 that requires the Department of Homeland Security to develop a broad strategy for border security, and meet timelines for implementing that strategy. House Homeland Security Committee Chair Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Border Subcommittee Chair Candice Miller, R-Mich., introduced the Border Security Results Act of 2013 in the House. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced the Senate version.
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“For too long, we have approached border security backwards -- by throwing resources at the problem, to plug the holes on our borders without a comprehensive plan to tactically distribute those resources,” said McCaul in a statement announcing the bill. “This legislation compels the use of taxpayer-owned technology to gain situational awareness of our borders so that we can finally see what we’re missing, and doing so will allow us to develop measures to gauge progress.”
The Act requires DHS to develop a border control strategy within 120 days of the bill’s passage, implement its strategy 60 days post-development, and gain “operational control” of the border within two years of the strategy’s implementation. The complete bill is (here).