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(4) The Memorandum of November 17, 2011, 
from the Principal Legal Advisor of United States 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement pertaining to 
‘‘Case-by-Case Review of Incoming and Certain Pend-
ing Cases’’. 
(5) The Memorandum of June 15, 2012, from the 
Secretary of Homeland Security pertaining to ‘‘Exer-
cising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Indi-
viduals Who Came to the United States as Children’’. 
(6) The Memorandum of December 21, 2012, 
from the Director of United States Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement pertaining to ‘‘Civil Immigra-
tion Enforcement: Guidance on the Use of Detainers 
in the Federal, State, Local, and Tribal Criminal 
Justice Systems’’. 
(7) The Memorandum of June 15, 2012, from the 
Director of United States Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement pertaining to ‘‘Secretary Napolitano’s 
Memorandum Concerning the Exercise of Prosecu-
torial Discretion for Certain Removable Individuals 
Who Entered the United States as a Child’’. 
SEC. 609. BORDER PATROL MOBILE AND RAPID RESPONSE 
TEAMS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as follows: 
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(1) It is possible for agents of U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement to use mobile rapid re-
sponse teams. 
(2) If such agents are in the field near the border 
and encounter trouble, they should be able to call a 
mobile response team if they cannot get help quickly 
enough by other means. 
(b) PLAN.—Not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall submit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a plan for developing and deploying mobile rapid re-
sponse teams to achieve the following objectives, and submit 
progress reports on the program every 90 days after it has 
been implemented: 
(1) Expand the Border Control Tactical Team 
program to make emergency assistance available to 
law enforcement officers in border areas along the 
Mexican border that are not designated as high traffic 
locations, including officers who operate on Tribal 
land. 
(2) Provide helicopters and other military trans-
ports to ensure that the teams can deploy quickly to 
where they are needed. 
(3) Maintain airborne patrols of these units to 
facilitate quick deployment when they are called. 
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(4) Provide a similar airborne force of regular 
border patrol officers who will provide the same emer-
gency response service for ranchers, farmers, and 
other people who live or work in these border areas. 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall implement the plan described in subsection 
(a) not later than 120 days after the date on which the 
plan is submitted. 
SEC. 610. GAO STUDY ON DEATHS IN CUSTODY. 
The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
submit to Congress within 6 months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, a report on the deaths in custody 
of detainees held by the Department of Homeland Security. 
The report shall include the following information with re-
spect to any such deaths and in connection therewith: 
(1) Whether any such deaths could have been 
prevented by the delivery of medical treatment ad-
ministered while the detainee is in the custody of the 
Department of Homeland Security. 
(2) Whether Department practice and procedures 
were properly followed and obeyed. 
(3) Whether such practice and procedures are 
sufficient to protect the health and safety of such de-
tainees. 
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(4) Whether reports of such deaths were made to 
the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program. 
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Union Calendar No. 509 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2278 
[Report No. 113–678, Part I] 
A BILL 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
improve immigration law enforcement within the 
interior of the United States, and for other pur-
poses. 
DECEMBER 16, 2014 
Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary with an 
amendment 
DECEMBER 16, 2014 
The Committees on Homeland Security, Agriculture, and 
Natural Resources discharged; committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
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