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H.R. 5517 · House bill · 119th Congress
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to regularly perform a threat analysis of the northern U.S. border.
The analysis must be performed every two years and include terroristic and criminal threats, improvements needed to prevent terrorism and reduce criminal activity, and whether preclearance and advance inspection operations at northern ports of entry could prevent terrorists from entering in the United States.
DHS must (1) update its northern border strategy after performing each threat analysis, and (2) provide a classified briefing to Congress. If DHS determines no update is required, DHS must notify Congress.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations (AMO) must develop performance measures to assess the AMO’s effectiveness at securing the northern border between ports of entry in air and maritime environments.
This Act may be cited as the “Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act”.
(a) Northern border threat analysis.— Subsection (a) of section 3 of the Northern Border Security Review Act (Public Law 114–267) is amended, the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “180 days after the date of enactment of this Act” and inserting “September 2, 2026, and biennially thereafter”.
(b) Northern border strategy updates.— Section 3 of the Northern Border Security Review Act is amended by—
(1) redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
(2) inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection:
“(c) Northern border strategy updates.— Not later than 90 days after each submission of the threat analysis required under subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall update the Department of Homeland Security’s northern border strategy. If the Secretary determines no such update is required, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a notification relating thereto.”.
(c) Classified briefings.— Section 3 of the Northern Border Security Review Act, as amended by subsection (b), is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(e) Classified briefings.— Not later than 30 days after each submission of the threat analysis required under subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees a classified briefing regarding such analysis.”.
(d) Implementation of certain GAO recommendations.— Not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Executive Assistant Commissioner of Air and Marine Operations (AMO) of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, shall develop performance measures to assess the effectiveness of AMO at securing the northern border between ports of entry in the air and maritime environments.