Secure America Act

What this does

Appropriates roughly $69.5 billion for border and immigration enforcement for fiscal year 2026, to remain available until September 30, 2029. Title I funds $9.55 billion for Border Patrol agents and support personnel doing work other than immigration and customs enforcement, $7.45 billion for Homeland Security Investigations (of which $108.5 million goes to child exploitation investigators and forensics analysts), $3.45 billion for inspection, surveillance, and screening technology, and $2.5 billion in additional Homeland Security funds. Title II funds $13.02 billion for Customs and Border Protection to carry out immigration enforcement, $31.075 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and another $2.5 billion for Homeland Security. Inside the ICE money, at least $350 million is set aside to arrest 'covered unlawful aliens' encountered in jurisdictions that have not signed a 287(g) agreement or certified compliance with federal information-sharing law, and none of that set-aside may be used to release those aliens into the community except as required by existing law. The ICE money also funds expansion of 287(g) agreements with state and local authorities. The bill is written as reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33.