# 119-s-41: Advanced Border Coordination Act of 2025

119-s-41, Advanced Border Coordination Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] (D-NV); status introduced (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-41
- Congress: 119
- Title: Advanced Border Coordination Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-09
- Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] (D-NV)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Immigration
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## 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. - 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.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN), 2025-01-09T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- New joint centers for border agencies: benefit, low. 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…

## Related bills

- 119-s-4744: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act
- 119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act
- 119-s-3110: STOP Human Trafficking Act
- 119-s-5283: Momnibus Act
- 119-s-882: Patients Before Middlemen Act
- 119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-s-41 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/41)

## Related
- [119-s-4744: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4744)
- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-3110: STOP Human Trafficking Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3110)
- [119-s-5283: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5283)
- [119-s-882: Patients Before Middlemen Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-882)
- [119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-554)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-41 (as of 2025-12-21).