I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 43 
To provide for emergency deployments of United States Border Patrol agents 
and to increase the number of DEA and ATF agents along the inter-
national border of the United States to increase resources to identify 
and eliminate illicit sources of firearms into Mexico for use by violent 
drug trafficking organizations and for other lawful activities, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 6, 2015 
Ms. JACKSON LEE introduced the following bill; which was 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 juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for emergency deployments of United States Bor-
der Patrol agents and to increase the number of DEA 
and ATF agents along the international border of the 
United States to increase resources to identify and elimi-
nate illicit sources of firearms into Mexico for use by 
violent drug trafficking organizations and for other law-
ful activities, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Border Security, Cooperation, and Act Now Drug War 
Prevention Act of 2015’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
TITLE I—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 101. Emergency deployment of United States Border Patrol agents. 
Sec. 102. Emergency deployment of DEA agents. 
Sec. 103. Emergency deployment of ATF agents. 
Sec. 104. Elimination of fixed deployment of United States Border Patrol 
agents. 
Sec. 105. Helicopters and power boats. 
Sec. 106. Control of United States Border Patrol assets. 
Sec. 107. Motor vehicles. 
Sec. 108. Portable computers. 
Sec. 109. Radio communications. 
Sec. 110. Hand-held global positioning system devices. 
Sec. 111. Night vision equipment. 
Sec. 112. Border armor. 
Sec. 113. Weapons. 
Sec. 114. Uniforms. 
Sec. 115. Task force. 
TITLE II—BORDER RELIEF 
Sec. 201. Border relief grant program. 
Sec. 202. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 203. Enforcement of Federal immigration law. 
Sec. 204. Regulations. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) In 2008, the violence between Mexican drug 
gangs fighting for trafficking routes to the United 
States killed approximately 6,000 people in Mexico, 
including more than 500 police officers and soldiers. 
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(2) In the first eight weeks of 2009, more than 
1,000 people were killed as a result of the drug war. 
(3) In March 2009, Mexico sent an additional 
3,200 soldiers to the border, increasing the total 
number of Mexican solders combating drug cartels 
to more than 45,000. 
(4) Over 200 United States citizens have been 
killed in the drug war, either because they were in-
volved in the cartels or were innocent bystanders. 
(5) The drug trade in Mexico include mari-
juana, 
heroin, 
cocaine, 
and 
methamphetamine 
(meth). 
(6) Mexico is the conduit for most of the co-
caine—approximately 90 percent—in the United 
States, the source for much of the heroin consumed 
in this country, and the largest foreign supplier of 
marijuana and meth to other markets. 
(7) Estimates indicate a vast majority of the 
cocaine available in the United States market is 
smuggled by Mexican cartels across the United 
States-Mexico border. 
(8) Cartels are becoming increasingly involved 
in the trafficking of meth because of the large profit 
margins they obtain from controlling the drug from 
manufacture to distribution. 
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(9) The drug cartels have criminal earnings in 
excess of $25 billion per year and physically send 
more than $10 billion a year in bulk cash back into 
Mexico from the United States. 
(10) According to the 2009 National Drug 
Threat Assessment, Mexican drug trafficking organi-
zations are the greatest drug trafficking threat to 
the United States. 
(11) Mexico’s cartels have existed for some 
time, but have become increasingly powerful in re-
cent years with the demise of once powerful cartels 
in Colombia and the closure of trafficking routes 
through Florida. 
(12) The Colombian cartels still play a role in 
the United States drug trade. 
(13) The Drug Enforcement Administration 
(DEA) maintains that the Mexican cartels now com-
mand and control the drug trade and show the hall-
marks of organized crime, such as organizing into 
distinct cells with subordinate cells, including gangs, 
which operate throughout the United States. 
(14) Mexican cartels control drug distribution 
in most United States cities, and they are gaining 
strength in markets that they do not yet control. 
The 2009 National Drug Threat Assessment indi-
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