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The bill increases vetting, training verification, and oversight of ICE and CBP—likely improving public safety and accountability—but does so at the cost of added federal and local administrative burdens, possible hiring delays, and privacy/oversight ambiguities that could create operational and legal frictions.
Citizens, migrants, and border communities will likely face fewer incidents of misconduct because ICE and CBP hiring and screening processes are strengthened to identify applicants with prior misconduct before hire.
Congress, federal managers, and the public gain clearer accountability and oversight through required documentation and an independent GAO report on hiring practices, use of state misconduct files, and training outcomes for ICE and CBP.
People interacting with ICE/CBP (and agencies themselves) benefit from verified training records and documentation of training length and pass/fail rates, improving officer readiness, professionalism, and public safety.
Taxpayers will bear additional administrative costs because audits, GAO reporting, verification, and related record compilation require federal staff time and resources.
Applicants, new hires, and border operations may face slower hiring and onboarding and temporary operational impacts if extra background checks, cross‑referencing of misconduct files, or remediation of training gaps delay assignments or restrict duties.
Applicants' privacy and personnel rights could be at risk because cross‑referencing, sharing, and storing state misconduct records (and publishing some training data) may expose sensitive information unless strong safeguards are specified.
Based on analysis of 12 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS audits and state-file cross-checks to certify ICE and CBP hires met background and training requirements and orders a GAO report on findings and training pass/fail rates.
Introduced March 4, 2026 by Ben Ray Luján · Last progress March 4, 2026
Requires the Department of Homeland Security to audit and certify that ICE and CBP hires met required background checks and hiring standards, to check recent hires against State-level misconduct records, and to verify required training completion for agents and officers. The Government Accountability Office must report findings, audit results, and training pass/fail rates to Congress within one year.