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119-s-41119th Congress

Advanced Border Coordination Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Senator Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]

Introduced

Summary

This bill would create Joint Operations Centers along the U.S.-Mexico border to centralize coordination among federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. The centers would support joint planning, information sharing, and operations to detect transnational criminal activity and illegal crossings.

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  • Federal agencies: The Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Justice are named participating agencies and the Secretary could include others to join operations.
  • State, local, and Tribal agencies: The centers would provide a channel for federal agencies to share pertinent information and to notify those agencies about operations occurring in their jurisdictions.
  • Border operations: The centers would coordinate ground, air, and sea or amphibious operations and focus on detecting transnational criminal organizations, illegal crossings, seizures of drugs, weapons, and high-value property, human trafficking, and terrorism.
  • Workforce, training, and oversight: The centers would track and coordinate personnel deployments and training. The Secretary would report to Congress within one year and then annually on resources used, key operations, interoperability gaps, and recommendations.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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New joint centers for border agencies

If enacted, the bill would require DHS to set up at least two Joint Operations Centers on the southern border within six months. The centers would be unified hubs where DHS, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and other Federal, State, local, and Tribal agencies share information and coordinate field operations. They would support ground, air, and sea operations, track personnel deployments, and coordinate training. The centers would focus on deterring and detecting transnational criminal organizations, illegal crossings, seizures of weapons and drugs, human trafficking, and terrorism. The Secretary would report to Congress not later than one year after enactment and annually after that on setup, resources used, key operations, communication gaps, and recommendations.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]

NV • D

Cosponsors

  • Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]

    TN • R

    Sponsored 1/9/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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