HR 506
Security First Act
Summary
Security First Act This bill reauthorizes the Operation Stonegarden program from FY2025 through FY2028 and addresses other border security issues. (Operation Stonegarden provides grants to enhance the border security capabilities of state, local, and tribal governments.) From FY2025 through FY2028, the money from unreported monetary instruments seized from individuals crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and transferred into the Department of the Treasury general fund shall be made available without further appropriation to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to fund Operation Stonegarden. DHS must report to Congress on (1) DHS hiring practices from 2018 to 2024, and (2) whether certain criminal gangs and Mexican drug cartels meet the criteria to be designated as foreign terrorist organizations. DHS must also periodically report to Congress about the technology needed to secure the U.S.-Mexico land border.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Rep. Tony Gonzales [R-TX-23]
- Cosponsors
- 15
- Policy area
- Immigration
- Introduced
- 2025-01-16
- Latest action
- 2025-01-16: Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-01-16: Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
- 2025-01-16: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
- 2025-01-16: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2025-01-16: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2025-01-16: Introduced in House