Border Security Information Improvement Act of 2012

Border Security Information Improvement Act of 2012 - Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to study and jointly report to specified congressional committees on cross-border violence on the southwest border of the United States.

Requires such study to include: (1) the definition of cross-border violence used by law enforcement components within the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); (2) the ability of DOJ and DHS and their law enforcement components to track, investigate, quantify, and report on such violence; (3) the extent to which DOJ and DHS define and track cross-border violence and steps being taken to address the effects of such violence along that border; (4) the information and data on cross-border violence collected and made available through interagency task forces; and (5) the additional resources needed.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6368 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6368

    To require the Department of Justice, in consultation with the 
Department of Homeland Security, to provide a report to Congress on the 
 Departments' ability to track, investigate and quantify cross-border 
  violence along the Southwest Border and provide recommendations to 
 Congress on how to accurately track, investigate, and quantify cross-
                            border violence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 10, 2012

 Mr. Canseco introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Homeland Security, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Department of Justice, in consultation with the 
Department of Homeland Security, to provide a report to Congress on the 
 Departments' ability to track, investigate and quantify cross-border 
  violence along the Southwest Border and provide recommendations to 
 Congress on how to accurately track, investigate, and quantify cross-
                            border violence.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Border Security Information 
Improvement Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. STUDY.

    (a) Report on Cross-Border Violence on the Southwest Border.--Not 
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, shall submit to the congressional committees set forth in 
subsection (b) a report on cross-border violence on the Southwest 
Border of the United States. Such study shall include--
            (1) the definition of cross-border violence used by law 
        enforcement components within the Departments of Justice and 
        Homeland Security;
            (2) the ability of the Departments of Justice and Homeland 
        Security and their law enforcement components to track, 
        investigate, quantify, and report on the level of cross-border 
        violence occurring along the Southwest Border of the United 
        States;
            (3) the extent to which the Departments of Justice and 
        Homeland Security define and track cross-border violence and 
        steps being taken to address the effects of cross-border 
        violence along the Southwest Border of the United States;
            (4) the information and data on cross-border violence 
        collected and made available through inter-agency taskforces on 
        the Southwest Border of the United States, including the 
        Southwest Border High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, 
        Arizona's Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats, the El Paso 
        Intelligence Center, the Border Enforcement and Security Task 
        Force, and State and Local Fusion Centers; and
            (5) the additional resources needed to track, investigate, 
        quantify and report on the level of cross-border violence 
        occurring along the United States-Mexico border.
    (b) Congressional Committees.--The congressional committees set 
forth in this subsection are--
            (1) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
        Affairs of the Senate;
            (2) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;
            (3) the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
        Representatives; and
            (4) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
        Representatives.
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