‘‘(3) ADMINISTRATION.—The rewards program 
shall be administered by the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, in consultation, as appropriate, with the 
Attorney General and the Secretary of State. 
‘‘(4) REWARDS AUTHORIZED.—In the sole dis-
cretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, such 
Secretary, in consultation, as appropriate, with the 
Attorney General and the Secretary of State, may 
pay a reward to any individual who furnishes infor-
mation or testimony leading to— 
‘‘(A) the arrest or conviction of any indi-
vidual conspiring or attempting to produce or 
sell fraudulent documents to be used for enter-
ing or remaining in the United States unlaw-
fully or to commit an act of commercial alien 
smuggling involving the transportation of 
aliens; 
‘‘(B) the arrest or conviction of any indi-
vidual committing such an act; 
‘‘(C) the arrest or conviction of any indi-
vidual aiding or abetting the commission of 
such an act; 
‘‘(D) the prevention, frustration, or favor-
able resolution of such an act, including the dis-
mantling of an operation to produce or sell 
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fraudulent documents to be used for entering or 
remaining in the United States, or commercial 
alien smuggling operations, in whole or in sig-
nificant part; or 
‘‘(E) the identification or location of an in-
dividual who holds a key leadership position in 
an operation to produce or sell fraudulent docu-
ments to be used for entering or remaining in 
the United States unlawfully or a commercial 
alien smuggling operation involving the trans-
portation of aliens. 
‘‘(5) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out this subsection. 
Amounts appropriated under this paragraph shall 
remain available until expended. 
‘‘(6) INELIGIBILITY.—An officer or employee of 
any Federal, State, local, or foreign government 
who, while in performance of his or her official du-
ties, furnishes information described in paragraph 
(4) shall not be eligible for a reward under this sub-
section for such furnishing. 
‘‘(7) PROTECTION MEASURES.—If the Secretary 
of Homeland Security, the Secretary of State, or the 
Attorney General determines that an individual who 
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furnishes information or testimony described in 
paragraph (4), or any spouse, child, parent, son, or 
daughter of such an individual, must be protected, 
such official may take such lawful action as the offi-
cial considers necessary to effect such protection. 
‘‘(8) LIMITATIONS AND CERTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(A) 
MAXIMUM
AMOUNT.—No 
reward 
under this subsection may exceed $100,000, ex-
cept as personally authorized by the Secretary 
of Homeland Security. 
‘‘(B) APPROVAL.—Any reward under this 
subsection exceeding $50,000 shall be person-
ally approved by the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity. 
‘‘(C) CERTIFICATION FOR PAYMENT.—Any 
reward granted under this subsection shall be 
certified for payment by the Secretary of Home-
land Security.’’. 
SEC. 606. OUTREACH PROGRAM. 
Section 274 (8 U.S.C. 1324), as amended by sub-
section (a), is further amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(f) OUTREACH PROGRAM.—The Secretary of Home-
land Security, in consultation, as appropriate, with the At-
torney General and the Secretary of State, shall develop 
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and implement an outreach program to educate the public 
in the United States and abroad about— 
‘‘(1) the penalties for— 
‘‘(A) bringing in and harboring aliens in 
violation of this section; and 
‘‘(B) participating in a commercial oper-
ation for making, or trafficking in, documents 
to be used for entering or remaining in the 
United States unlawfully; and 
‘‘(2) the financial rewards and other incentives 
available for assisting in the investigation, disrup-
tion, or prosecution of a commercial smuggling oper-
ation or a commercial operation for making, or traf-
ficking in, documents to be used for entering or re-
maining in the United States unlawfully.’’. 
SEC. 607. ESTABLISHMENT OF A SPECIAL TASK FORCE FOR 
COORDINATING AND DISTRIBUTING INFOR-
MATION 
ON 
FRAUDULENT 
IMMIGRATION 
DOCUMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall establish a task force (to be known as the Task 
Force on Fraudulent Immigration Documents) to carry 
out the following: 
(1) Collect information from Federal, State, 
and local law enforcement agencies, and Foreign 
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governments on the production, sale, and distribu-
tion of fraudulent documents intended to be used to 
enter or to remain in the United States unlawfully. 
(2) Maintain that information in a comprehen-
sive database. 
(3) Convert the information into reports that 
will provide guidance for government officials on 
identifying fraudulent documents being used to enter 
or to remain in the United States unlawfully. 
(4) Develop a system for distributing these re-
ports on an ongoing basis to appropriate Federal, 
State, and local law enforcement agencies. 
(b) DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION.—Distribute the 
reports to appropriate Federal, State, and local law en-
forcement agencies on an ongoing basis. 
Subtitle B—Northern Border Pros-
ecution 
Initiative 
Reimburse-
ment Act 
SEC. 611. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Northern Border 
Prosecution Initiative Reimbursement Act’’. 
SEC. 612. NORTHERN BORDER PROSECUTION INITIATIVE. 
(a) INITIATIVE REQUIRED.—From amounts made 
available to carry out this section, the Attorney General, 
acting through the Director of the Bureau of Justice As-
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sistance of the Office of Justice Programs, shall carry out 
a program, to be known as the Northern Border Prosecu-
tion Initiative, to provide funds to reimburse eligible 
northern border entities for costs incurred by those enti-
ties for handling case dispositions of criminal cases that 
are federally initiated but federally declined-referred. This 
program shall be modeled after the Southwestern Border 
Prosecution Initiative and shall serve as a partner pro-
gram to that initiative to reimburse local jurisdictions for 
processing Federal cases. 
(b) PROVISION
AND ALLOCATION
OF FUNDS.— 
Funds provided under the program shall be provided in 
the form of direct reimbursements and shall be allocated 
in a manner consistent with the manner under which 
funds are allocated under the Southwestern Border Pros-
ecution Initiative. 
(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds provided to an eligible 
northern border entity may be used by the entity for any 
lawful purpose, including the following purposes: 
(1) Prosecution and related costs. 
(2) Court costs. 
(3) Costs of courtroom technology. 
(4) Costs of constructing holding spaces. 
(5) Costs of administrative staff. 
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(6) Costs of defense counsel for indigent de-
fendants. 
(7) Detention costs, including pre-trial and 
post-trial detention. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘eligible northern border entity’’ 
means— 
(A) any of the following States: Alaska, 
Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, 
New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, 
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, and 
Wisconsin; or 
(B) any unit of local government within a 
State referred to in subparagraph (A). 
(2) The term ‘‘federally initiated’’ means, with 
respect to a criminal case, that the case results from 
a criminal investigation or an arrest involving Fed-
eral law enforcement authorities for a potential vio-
lation of Federal criminal law, including investiga-
tions resulting from multijurisdictional task forces. 
(3) The term ‘‘federally declined-referred’’ 
means, with respect to a criminal case, that a deci-
sion has been made in that case by a United States 
Attorney or a Federal law enforcement agency dur-
ing a Federal investigation to no longer pursue Fed-
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eral criminal charges against a defendant and to 
refer of the investigation to a State or local jurisdic-
tion for possible prosecution. The term includes a 
decision made on an individualized case-by-case 
basis as well as a decision made pursuant to a gen-
eral policy or practice or pursuant to prosecutorial 
discretion. 
(4) The term ‘‘case disposition’’, for purposes 
of the Northern Border Prosecution Initiative, refers 
to the time between a suspect’s arrest and the reso-
lution of the criminal charges through a county or 
State judicial or prosecutorial process. Disposition 
does not include incarceration time for sentenced of-
fenders, or time spent by prosecutors on judicial ap-
peals. 
SEC. 613. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subtitle $28,000,000 for fiscal year 2007 and such 
sums as may be necessary for fiscal years after fiscal year 
2007. 
Subtitle C—Criminal Aliens 
SEC. 621. REMOVAL OF CRIMINAL ALIENS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Within one year after the date of 
the enactment of this Act the Department of Homeland 
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Security shall locate and remove all criminal aliens who 
have been ordered deported as of such enactment date. 
(b) CONTINUATION AND EXPANSION OF INSTITU-
TIONAL REMOVAL PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General and 
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall continue 
to operate and implement the Institutional Removal 
Program, under section 238(a)(1) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1228(a)(1)), 
which identifies removable criminal aliens serving 
sentences in Federal and State correctional facilities 
for crimes set forth in section 238(a)(1) of such Act, 
ensures such aliens are not released into the commu-
nity, and removes such aliens from the United 
States upon completion of their sentences. The Insti-
tutional Removal Program shall be designed in ac-
cordance with section 238(a)(3) of such Act such 
that removal proceedings may be initiated and, to 
the extent possible, completed before completion of a 
criminal sentence. 
(2) EXPANSION.—The Institutional Removal 
Program shall be made available to all States. The 
Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall increase the personnel for such program by 
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750 full-time equivalent personnel for fiscal years 
2007 through 2010. 
(3) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide 
training and technical assistance to State and local 
correctional officers about the Institutional Removal 
Program, the roles and responsibilities of Federal 
immigration authorities in identifying and removing 
criminal aliens pursuant to section 238(a)(3) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act, and methods for 
communicating between State and local correctional 
facilities and the Federal immigration agents re-
sponsible for removals. 
(4) COOPERATION, IDENTIFICATION, AND NOTI-
FICATION.—Any State that receives Federal funds 
pursuant to section 241(i) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(i)) shall— 
(A) cooperate with Federal Institutional 
Removal Program officials in carrying out 
criminal alien removals pursuant to section 
238(a)(1) of such Act; 
(B) permit Federal agents to expeditiously 
and systematically identify such aliens des-
ignated under such section serving criminal sen-
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tences in State and local correctional facilities; 
and 
(C) facilitate the transfer of such aliens to 
Federal custody as a condition for receiving 
such funds. 
(5) TECHNOLOGY USAGE.—Technology, such as 
videoconferencing, shall be used to the extent nec-
essary in order to make the Institutional Removal 
Program available to facilities in remote locations. 
The purpose of such technology shall be to ensure 
inmate access to consular officials, and to permit 
federal officials to screen inmates for deportability 
pursuant to section 238(a)(1) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1228(a)(1)). Use of 
technology should in no way impede or interfere with 
an individual’s right to access to legal counsel, full 
and fair immigration proceedings, and due process. 
(6) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall submit an annual report to 
Congress on the participation of States in the Insti-
tutional Removal Program. The report should also 
evaluate the extent to which States and localities 
submit qualified requests for reimbursement pursu-
ant to section 241(i) of the Immigration and Na-
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