S-1808 : Became Public Law

Northern Border Security Review Act

Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to specified congressional committees a northern border threat analysis, which shall include analyses of:

• terrorism and criminal threats posed by individuals and organized groups seeking to enter the United States through the northern border or to exploit border vulnerabilities on such border;
• improvements needed at and between ports of entry along the northern border to prevent terrorists and instruments of terror from entering the United States and to reduce criminal activity, as measured by the total flow of illegal goods and illicit drugs, related to such border; and
• vulnerabilities in law, policy, cooperation between state, tribal, and local law enforcement, international agreements, or tribal agreements that hinder border security, counterterrorism, anti-human trafficking efforts, and the flow of legitimate trade along the northern border.

Directs the Secretary, for such analysis, to consider and examine:

• technology needs and challenges;
• personnel needs and challenges;
• the role of state, tribal, and local law enforcement in general border security activities;
• the need for cooperation among federal, state, tribal, local, and Canadian law enforcement entities relating to border security; and
• the geographic challenges of the northern border.