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Redesignates existing subsection (g) as subsection (h) and inserts a new subsection (g) establishing a remittance fee, procedures for transferring collected fees to the Secure the Southern Border Fund, and penalties and foreign-assistance/visa-waiver consequences for evasion.
Adds a new subsection (r) to 29 U.S.C. 207 establishing a special overtime/compensation rule for Border Patrol agents: during any 14-consecutive-day work period, a Border Patrol agent who receives compensation at a rate not less than 150% of the regular rate for all hours worked from 80 to 100 will not constitute a violation of subsection (a); such payments are in addition to any payments under that section and shall be made notwithstanding pay limitations in title 5.
Strikes paragraph (18) of 29 U.S.C. 213(a) and redesignates paragraph (19) as paragraph (18), effecting a renumbering and removal of the former paragraph (18).
Amends Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (codified at 8 U.S.C. 1103) by replacing subsection (a) with a new mandate requiring the Secretary of Homeland Security, not later than December 31, 2025, to design, test, construct, and install physical barriers, roads, and technology along the international land border with Mexico; revises subsection (b) to specify construction of physical barriers (including secondary barriers), consultation requirements, notification deadlines, and a limitation on requirements; and revises subsection (c)(1) to authorize waiver of legal requirements and make such waivers effective upon publication in the Federal Register.
Amends subsection (a) of section 2 of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (as codified) by replacing the compliance deadline phrase '18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act' with 'December 31, 2025.'
This Act directs that all fees collected for services performed in processing CBP Form I–94 shall be allocated $6 to the Land Border Inspection Fee Account, $10 (subject to appropriations) for U.S. Border Patrol agent salaries, and $9 to the Secure the Southern Border Fund, notwithstanding section 286(q) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(q)).
Inserts a new section 3344 into title 31 (at the end of subchapter III / chapter 33) establishing the 'Secure the Southern Border Fund' as an account in the Treasury; provides that funds deposited are available until expended and are authorized and appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland Security for (1) planning, designing, constructing, or maintaining a barrier along the international border between the United States and Mexico and (2) purchasing and maintaining necessary vehicles and equipment for U.S. Border Patrol agents, with a limitation that not more than 5 percent of funds may be used for subsection (b)(2).
This bill creates a special fund in the U.S. Treasury to design, build, and maintain a barrier along the U.S.–Mexico border and to buy vehicles and equipment for border patrol agents. Money for the fund would come from a new 5% fee on money transfers sent from the U.S. to other countries, higher I‑94 arrival/departure form fees for some visitors, and by cutting some U.S. foreign aid by $2,000 for each person from that country caught crossing the southern border illegally; those amounts are moved into the border fund. The State Department could choose not to apply these cuts to certain Mexico security programs.
By December 31, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security must take all needed steps, including building barriers, to prevent illegal crossings along the southern border and gain control over all U.S. international borders. The bill also changes Border Patrol overtime: in a two‑week period, hours above 80 up to 100 must be paid at least time‑and‑a‑half.
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Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Biggs · Last progress January 3, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House