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U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Section 201 · Sec. 201 ·

What this chapter is about

This part sets aside $13,020,000,000 for the border force. It pays to hire, pay, train, and equip agents and the staff who back them up. It also pays the running costs of the force. This money is for immigration work.

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The document says “shallWho acts: Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionHow: statuteSec. 201 in the PDF
What the document says

“there is appropriated to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $13,020,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for hiring, paying, training, and equipping U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, and the necessary support staff, and to provide other necessary expenses for U.S. Customs and Border Protection mission support and operations and maintenance, in order to carry out immigration enforcement activities.”

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33, Sec. 201

The section appropriates $13,020,000,000 to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for fiscal year 2026, in addition to amounts otherwise available. The money remains available until September 30, 2029. It is for hiring, paying, training and equipping agents and the necessary support staff, and for other necessary expenses of mission support and of operations and maintenance, in order to carry out immigration enforcement activities.

What the document actually says

“there is appropriated to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $13,020,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for hiring, paying, training, and equipping U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, and the necessary support staff, and to provide other necessary expenses for U.S. Customs and Border Protection mission support and operations and maintenance, in order to carry out immigration enforcement activities.”

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33, Sec. 201
That sentence, in plain words

Congress sets aside $13,020,000,000 for the head of the border force. It may be spent up to September 30, 2029. It pays to hire, pay, train, and equip agents and the staff who back them up. It also pays the running costs of the force.

What this is about

This part sits in Title II of the law. Title II pays for immigration work. Title I says in each of its parts that its money is for work of some other kind.

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  1. The document itself

    Secure America Act, Public Law 119-98, sec. 201, 140 Stat. 839 (2026).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ98/html/PLAW-119publ98.htm

  2. This page

    “U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” Secure America Act, section 201. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/secure-america-act/section-201/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The one sentence the section contains: the appropriation, its amount, its recipient, how long it stays available, what it may be spent on and the end it is directed at.

Nothing in the section is left out. It runs to a single sentence.

The section amends no older statute. It does not define immigration enforcement activities, and it names no number of agents the sum is expected to hire.