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The bill aims to strengthen cross-border law-enforcement cooperation and victim remedies, improving security and operational flexibility for border areas, but raises meaningful civil-liberty, accountability, and taxpayer-cost risks while relying in part on non-binding directions that may not guarantee change.
Border communities and travelers will likely see improved security and faster cross-border responses because U.S. and foreign law enforcement can coordinate operations, share information, and station personnel together.
Law-enforcement agencies (U.S. and partner-country) will be able to cooperate more deeply because treaties that extend privileges and immunities make it easier for foreign officers to operate with legal protections similar to U.S. counterparts.
Victims of incidents involving CBP actions abroad could receive compensation more readily because CBP can use available funds to pay foreign tort claims.
People who live near the border (and those interacting with stationed foreign officers) may face increased privacy and civil liberties risks because cross-border integrated operations and foreign personnel operating domestically can reduce transparency and oversight.
Taxpayers could face higher fiscal costs because expanding cross-border operations and allowing CBP to pay foreign tort claims increases operational and liability expenditures without new appropriations.
Extending privileges and immunities to foreign officers may complicate prosecutions and civil remedies for misconduct, making accountability harder for people harmed by foreign personnel operating in the U.S.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes treaties/agreements to expand cross-border law enforcement cooperation, allow foreign officers customs-style privileges in the U.S., permit stationing of foreign and U.S. officers, and let CBP pay related foreign tort claims.
Introduced September 19, 2025 by Nicholas A. Langworthy · Last progress September 19, 2025
Authorizes expanded cross-border law enforcement cooperation by letting the Secretary of State (coordinating with DHS) negotiate treaties or agreements that extend U.S. customs-style privileges and immunities to designated foreign officers, permits stationing or deployment of foreign law enforcement in the United States and U.S. law enforcement abroad for joint operations, and allows CBP to use available funds to pay tort claims that arise abroad in connection with its operations. It also expresses a non-binding view urging DHS to seek such agreements with Canada to enable integrated aerial, maritime, and land operations.