Securing our Border Act

This bill moves leftover government money that was set aside for the IRS to use on tax enforcement and puts it toward building border wall systems along the southwest border and installing inspection equipment along both the northern and southwest borders. It also lets U.S. Customs and Border Protection offer bonuses to help hire, keep, and relocate border agents, with rules like caps on how much the bonuses can be and requirements that agents stay at their new posts for a set period of time. Additionally, the bill changes the rules for people who are not U.S. citizens and arrive by land from a neighboring country — if they don't clearly have the right to enter the U.S., the government would now be required to either send them back to a neighboring or safe country while their case is being decided, or hold them in detention while their asylum request is reviewed, instead of just having the option to do so.

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