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Title 34, NavyRelease 119-110

§41506 United States-mexico Border Violence Task Force

Title 34 › Subtitle IV — Criminal Records and Information › CHAPTER 415 — RESOURCE CENTERS, TASK FORCES, DATABASES, AND PROGRAMS › § 41506

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must create the United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force in Laredo, Texas to fight drug and gun smuggling, violent crimes, and kidnappings near the U.S.-Mexico border and to help border law enforcement and homeland security. The team will include ATF, ICE, DEA, Customs and Border Protection, other federal partners as needed, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and local police. The Attorney General must also provide money for ongoing administrative and technology costs for participating agencies. Congress authorized $10,000,000 for each fiscal year 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 to set up and run the task force and to support investigations, arrests, and prosecutions of people involved in those crimes.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §41506

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(a)Task Force
(1)The Attorney General shall establish the United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force in Laredo, Texas, to combat drug and firearms trafficking, violence, and kidnapping along the border between the United States and Mexico and to provide expertise to the law enforcement and homeland security agencies along the border between the United States and Mexico. The Task Force shall include personnel from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and Border Protection, other Federal agencies (as appropriate), the Texas Department of Public Safety, and local law enforcement agencies.
(2)The Attorney General shall make available funds to provide for the ongoing administrative and technological costs to Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies participating in the Task Force.
(b)Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2009, for— (1)
(2)the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of individuals engaged in drug and firearms trafficking, violence, and kidnapping along the border between the United States and Mexico.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified as a note under section 509 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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34 U.S.C. § 41506

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110