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date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of United 
States Citizenship and Immigration Services (in this sec-
tion referred to as ‘‘USCIS’’) undertake maximum efforts 
to reduce to the greatest extent practicable the backlog 
in the processing and adjudicative functions of USCIS. 
(b) PILOT PROGRAM INITIATIVES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director is authorized 
to implement a pilot program for the purposes of, to 
the greatest extent practicable— 
(A) reducing the backlog in the processing 
of immigration benefit applications; and 
(B) preventing such backlog from recur-
ring. 
(2) INITIATIVES.—To carry out paragraph (1), 
initiatives may include measures such as increasing 
personnel, transferring personnel to focus on areas 
with the largest potential for backlog, streamlining 
paperwork processes, and increasing information 
technology and service centers. 
SEC. 220. FEDERAL AFFIRMATION OF ASSISTANCE IN THE 
IMMIGRATION 
LAW 
ENFORCEMENT 
BY 
STATES AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF 
STATES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law and reaffirming the existing inherent authority
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of States, law enforcement personnel of a State or a polit-
ical subdivision of a State have the inherent authority of 
a sovereign entity to investigate, identify, apprehend, ar-
rest, detain, or transfer to Federal custody aliens in the 
United States (including the transportation of such aliens 
across State lines to detention centers), for the purposes 
of assisting in the enforcement of the immigration laws 
of the United States in the course of carrying out routine 
duties. This State authority has never been displaced or 
preempted by Congress. 
(b) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section may be 
construed to require law enforcement personnel of a State 
or political subdivision of a State to— 
(1) report the identity of a victim of, or a wit-
ness to, a criminal offense to the Secretary of Home-
land Security for immigration enforcement purposes; 
or 
(2) arrest such victim or witness for a violation 
of the immigration laws of the United States. 
SEC. 221. TRAINING OF STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCE-
MENT PERSONNEL RELATING TO THE EN-
FORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF TRAINING MANUAL
AND 
POCKET GUIDE.—Not later than 180 days after the date
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of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall establish— 
(1) a training manual for law enforcement per-
sonnel of a State or political subdivision of a State 
to train such personnel in the investigation, identi-
fication, apprehension, arrest, detention, and trans-
fer to Federal custody of aliens in the United States 
(including the transportation of such aliens across 
State lines to detention centers and the identifica-
tion of fraudulent documents); and 
(2) an immigration enforcement pocket guide 
for law enforcement personnel of a State or political 
subdivision of a State to provide a quick reference 
for such personnel in the course of duty. 
(b) AVAILABILITY.—The training manual and pocket 
guide established in accordance with subsection (a) shall 
be made available to all State and local law enforcement 
personnel. 
(c) APPLICABILITY.—Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to require State or local law enforcement per-
sonnel to carry the training manual or pocket guide estab-
lished under subsection (a)(2) with them while on duty. 
(d) COSTS.—The Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall be responsible for any and all costs incurred in estab-
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lishing the training manual and pocket guide under sub-
section (a). 
(e) TRAINING FLEXIBILITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall make training of State and local law 
enforcement officers available through as many 
means as possible, including residential training at 
the Center for Domestic Preparedness, onsite train-
ing held at State or local police agencies or facilities, 
online training courses by computer, teleconfer-
encing, and videotape, or the digital video display 
(DVD) of a training course or courses. E-learning 
through a secure, encrypted distributed learning sys-
tem that has all its servers based in the United 
States, is sealable, survivable, and can have a portal 
in place within 30 days, shall be made available by 
the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Dis-
tributed Learning Program for State and local law 
enforcement personnel. 
(2) FEDERAL
PERSONNEL
TRAINING.—The 
training of State and local law enforcement per-
sonnel under this section shall not displace the train-
ing of Federal personnel. 
(3) CLARIFICATION.—Nothing in this Act or 
any other provision of law shall be construed as
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making any immigration-related training a require-
ment for, or prerequisite to, any State or local law 
enforcement officer to assist in the enforcement of 
Federal immigration laws in the normal course of 
carrying out their normal law enforcement duties. 
(f) TRAINING LIMITATION.—Section 287(g) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)) is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Attorney General’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Secretary of Homeland Security’’ each place it 
appears; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘Such training shall not exceed 14 days or 
80 hours, whichever is longer.’’. 
SEC. 222. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO STATE AND LOCAL 
POLICE AGENCIES THAT ASSIST IN THE EN-
FORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS. 
(a) GRANTS FOR SPECIAL EQUIPMENT FOR HOUSING 
AND
PROCESSING
ILLEGAL
ALIENS.—From amounts 
made available to make grants under this section, the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security shall make grants to States 
and political subdivisions of States for procurement of 
equipment, technology, facilities, and other products that 
facilitate and are directly related to investigating, appre-
hending, arresting, detaining, or transporting immigration
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law violators, including additional administrative costs in-
curred under this Act. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section, a State or political subdivision of a 
State must have the authority to, and have in effect the 
policy and practice to, assist in the enforcement of the 
immigration laws of the United States in the course of 
carrying out such agency’s routine law enforcement duties. 
(c) FUNDING.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated for grants under this section $250,000,000 for 
each fiscal year. 
(d) GAO AUDIT.—Not later than 3 years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 
of the United States shall conduct an audit of funds dis-
tributed to States and political subdivisions of States 
under subsection (a). 
SEC. 223. INSTITUTIONAL REMOVAL PROGRAM (IRP). 
(a) CONTINUATION AND EXPANSION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Department of Home-
land Security shall continue to operate and imple-
ment the program known as the Institutional Re-
moval Program (IRP) which— 
(A) identifies removable criminal aliens in 
Federal and State correctional facilities;
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(B) ensures such aliens are not released 
into the community; and 
(C) removes such aliens from the United 
States after the completion of their sentences. 
(2) EXPANSION.—The institutional removal 
program shall be extended to all States. Any State 
that receives Federal funds for the incarceration of 
criminal aliens shall— 
(A) cooperate with officials of the institu-
tional removal program; 
(B) expeditiously and systematically iden-
tify criminal aliens in its prison and jail popu-
lations; and 
(C) promptly convey such information to 
officials of such program as a condition for re-
ceiving such funds. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION FOR DETENTION AFTER COM-
PLETION OF STATE OR LOCAL PRISON SENTENCE.—Law 
enforcement officers of a State or political subdivision of 
a State have the authority to— 
(1) hold an illegal alien for a period of up to 
14 days after the alien has completed the alien’s 
State prison sentence in order to effectuate the 
transfer of the alien to Federal custody when the
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alien is removable or not lawfully present in the 
United States; or 
(2) issue a detainer that would allow aliens who 
have served a State prison sentence to be detained 
by the State prison until personnel from United 
States Immigration and Customs Enforcement can 
take the alien into custody. 
(c) TECHNOLOGY USAGE.—Technology such as video 
conferencing shall be used to the maximum extent possible 
in order to make the Institutional Removal Program 
(IRP) available in remote locations. Mobile access to Fed-
eral databases of aliens, such as IDENT, and live scan 
technology shall be used to the maximum extent prac-
ticable in order to make these resources available to State 
and local law enforcement agencies in remote locations. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out the institutional 
removal program— 
(1) $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
(2) $115,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
(3) $130,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
(4) $145,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and 
(5) $160,000,000 for fiscal year 2011.
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SEC. 224. STATE CRIMINAL ALIEN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
(SCAAP). 
Section 241(i)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(i)) is amended by inserting before the 
period at the end the following: ‘‘and $1,000,000,000 for 
each subsequent fiscal year’’. 
SEC. 225. STATE AUTHORIZATION FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE 
ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS EN-
COURAGED. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Effective 2 years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, a State (or political subdivi-
sion of a State) that has in effect a statute, policy, or 
practice that prohibits law enforcement officers of the 
State, or of a political subdivision within the State, from 
assisting or cooperating with Federal immigration law en-
forcement in the course of carrying out the officers’ rou-
tine law enforcement duties shall not receive any of the 
funds that would otherwise be allocated to the State under 
section 241(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1231(i)). 
(b) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall 
require law enforcement officials from States or political 
subdivisions of States to report or arrest victims or wit-
nesses of a criminal offense. 
(c) REALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Any funds that are 
not allocated to a State or political subdivision of a State
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due to the failure of the State to comply with subsection 
(a) shall be reallocated to States that comply with such 
subsection. 
TITLE 
III—BORDER 
SECURITY 
COOPERATION 
AND 
EN-
FORCEMENT 
SEC. 301. JOINT STRATEGIC PLAN FOR UNITED STATES 
BORDER SURVEILLANCE AND SUPPORT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity and the Secretary of Defense shall develop a joint 
strategic plan to use the authorities provided to the Sec-
retary of Defense under chapter 18 of title 10, United 
States Code, to increase the availability and use of Depart-
ment of Defense equipment, including unmanned aerial 
vehicles, tethered aerostat radars, and other surveillance 
equipment, to assist with the surveillance activities of the 
Department of Homeland Security conducted at or near 
the international land and maritime borders of the United 
States. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than six months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Home-
land Security and the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
to appropriate congressional committees (as defined in 
section 102(g)) a report containing—
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(1) a description of the use of Department of 
Defense equipment to assist with the surveillance by 
the Department of Homeland Security of the inter-
national land and maritime borders of the United 
States; 
(2) the joint strategic plan developed pursuant 
to subsection (a); 
(3) a description of the types of equipment and 
other support to be provided by the Department of 
Defense under the joint strategic plan during the 
one-year period beginning after submission of the re-
port under this subsection; and 
(4) a description of how the Department of 
Homeland Security and the Department of Defense 
are working with the Department of Transportation 
on safety and airspace control issues associated with 
the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the National 
Airspace System. 
(c) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.—(1) Nothing in this 
section shall be construed as altering or amending the pro-
hibition on the use of any part of the Army or the Air 
Force as a posse comitatus under section 1385 of title 18, 
United States Code. 
(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter, 
impact, diminish, or in any way undermine the authority
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of the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administra-
tion to oversee, regulate, and control the safe and efficient 
use of the airspace of the United States. 
SEC. 302. BORDER SECURITY ON PROTECTED LAND. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, 
shall evaluate border security vulnerabilities on land di-
rectly adjacent to the international land border of the 
United States under the jurisdiction of the Department 
of the Interior related to the prevention of the entry of 
terrorists, other unlawful aliens, narcotics, and other con-
traband into the United States. 
(b) SUPPORT
FOR BORDER SECURITY NEEDS.— 
Based on the evaluation conducted pursuant to subsection 
(a), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide ap-
propriate border security assistance on land directly adja-
cent to the international land border of the United States 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 
its bureaus, and tribal entities. 
SEC. 303. BORDER SECURITY THREAT ASSESSMENT AND IN-
FORMATION SHARING TEST AND EVALUA-
TION EXERCISE. 
Not later than one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall