Michel O. Maceda Memorial Act

Michel O. Maceda Memorial Act

This act designates the Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection located  at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, as the Michel O. Maceda Marine Unit.

[118th Congress Public Law 139]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 118-139
118th Congress

                                 An Act


 
   To designate the Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. 
   Customs and Border Protection located at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, 
 Puerto Rico, as the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine Unit''. <<NOTE: Dec. 11, 
                         2024 -  [H.R. 5302]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Michel O. 
Maceda Memorial Act.>> 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

     This Act may be cited as the ``Michel O. Maceda Memorial Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

     Congress finds the following:
            (1) Marine Interdiction Agent Michel O. Maceda served 
        honorably in the United States Army as a wheeled vehicle 
        mechanic prior to joining the United States Border Patrol as an 
        Agent in Douglas, Arizona, in April 2016.
            (2) Agent Maceda became a Marine Interdiction Agent with 
        U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations in 
        Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 2021.
            (3) On November 17, 2022, Agent Maceda and 2 other agents 
        were conducting a drug interdiction stop off the coast of Puerto 
        Rico, during which the agents boarded the target vessel.
            (4) During the stop, Agent Maceda was mortally wounded when 
        1 of the occupants of the vessel shot the boarding agents with a 
        firearm.
            (5) Agent Maceda is survived by his daughter, brother, and 
        parents.
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION.

    The Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection located at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, 
shall forever be known and designated as the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine 
Unit''.
SEC. 4. REFERENCES.

    Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the marine unit referred

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to in section 3 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Michel O. 
Maceda Marine Unit''.

    Approved December 11, 2024.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 5302 (S. 3181):
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 118-542, Pt. 1 (Comm. on Homeland Security).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 170 (2024):
            Sept. 24, considered and passed House.
            Nov. 21, considered and passed Senate.

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