(b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act and annually there-
after, the Commissioner of United States Customs and 
Border Protection shall submit to the Secretary of Home-
land Security and Congress a report that— 
(1) analyzes trends with respect to the statistics 
collected under subsection (a) during the preceding 
year; 
(2) recommends actions to reduce and prevent 
the deaths referred to in subsection (a); and 
(3) specifies a number of additional rescue bea-
cons that, if deployed, would reduce and prevent mi-
grant deaths, as well as location-specific statistics 
evaluating the frequency of use of rescue beacons. 
(c) RESCUE BEACONS.—By not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall deploy 20 rescue beacons in 
areas of greatest need, as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 8. SOUTHWEST BORDER STRATEGY STUDY AND ANAL-
YSIS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall conduct a study of southwest border enforcement 
operations since 1994 and the relationship of such oper-
ations to death rates on the United States-Mexico border. 
Such study shall be conducted in cooperation with non-
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governmental organizations and other community stake-
holders involved in recovering and identifying migrant 
deaths and include the following: 
(1) An analysis of the relationship of border en-
forcement and deaths on the border. 
(2) An analysis of whether physical barriers, 
technology, and enforcement programs have contrib-
uted to the rate of deaths occurring along the border 
between the United States and Mexico. 
(3) An analysis of the effectiveness of geo-
graphical terrain as a natural barrier for entry into 
the United States in achieving Department of 
Homeland Security goals and the role of such geo-
graphical terrain in contributing to rates of deaths 
occurring along the border between the United 
States and Mexico. 
(4) An assessment of existing protocol related 
to reporting, tracking and interagency communica-
tions between United States Customs and Border 
Protection and local first responders and consular 
services, including a description of whether each 
Border Patrol sector has formalized emergency re-
sponse coordination with State and local law en-
forcement agencies such that emergency calls re-
layed to Customs and Border Protection result in 
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the same rescue efforts for perceived migrants that 
would take place for others. 
(b) SUBMISSION.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall submit the study required under subsection (a) 
to the following: 
(1) The Southern Border Security Commission 
United States-Mexico Border Enforcement Commis-
sion as established in section 15 of this Act. 
(2) The Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs and the Committee on the Ju-
diciary of the Senate. 
(3) The Committee on Homeland Security and 
the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives. 
(4) The Committee on Oversight and Govern-
ment Reform of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 9. PROHIBITION ON MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN NON-
EMERGENCY BORDER ENFORCEMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Armed Forces, including the 
National Guard, are prohibited from assisting in Federal, 
State, and local and civilian law enforcement of immigra-
tion laws. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—The Armed Forces, including the 
National Guard, may assist in Federal, State, and local 
and civilian law enforcement of immigration laws when the 
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President has declared a national emergency or when re-
quired for specific counterterrorism duties and shall be 
limited to the following: 
(1) Rear echelon support duties, including 
logistical support, construction, and intelligence col-
lection from positions within 25 miles from the bor-
der. 
(2) Non-armed operations within 25 miles of 
the border, including listening posts and observation 
post operations. 
(3) Armed operations within 25 miles of the 
border, including listening posts and observation 
post operations. 
(c) REPORT.—The Secretary of Defense shall annu-
ally submit to Congress a report that details the involve-
ment of the Armed Forces, including the National Guard, 
in border security and the enforcement of Federal immi-
gration laws in accordance with this section. 
SEC. 10. BORDER COMMUNITIES LIAISON OFFICE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall establish, in consultation with the Office for 
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the Department of 
Homeland Security, a Border Communities Liaison Office 
in every border patrol sector at the southern and northern 
borders. 
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(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Border Commu-
nities Liaison Offices established pursuant to subsection 
(a) shall be to— 
(1) foster and institutionalize consultation with 
border communities; 
(2) consult with border communities on agency 
policies, directives, and laws; 
(3) consult with border communities on agency 
strategies and strategy development; 
(4) consult with border communities on agency 
services and operational issues; 
(5) receive assessments on agency performance 
from border communities; and 
(6) receive and respond promptly and trans-
parently to complaints regarding agency perform-
ance and agent conduct. 
(c) TRAINING.—The Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall ensure that border communities liaison officers in 
Border Patrol sectors along the international borders be-
tween the United States and Mexico and between the 
United States and Canada receive training to better— 
(1) act as a multilingual liaison between border 
communities and the Office for Civil Rights and 
Civil Liberties of the Department of Homeland Se-
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curity and the Civil Rights Division of the Depart-
ment of Justice; 
(2) foster and institutionalize consultation with 
border communities; 
(3) consult with border communities on Depart-
ment of Homeland Security programs, policies, 
strategies, and directives; and 
(4) receive Department of Homeland Security 
performance assessments from border communities. 
SEC. 11. OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES 
AND OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are nec-
essary for the Office of Inspector General and the Office 
for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the Department of 
Homeland Security to be comparable to those of other 
Federal agencies and commensurate with the size and 
scope of the operational budget of the Department of 
Homeland Security. 
(b) INSPECTOR GENERAL ANNUAL REPORT.—The 
Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity shall include in an annual report submitted by the 
Inspector General to Congress a benchmark for how quick-
ly the Office of the Inspector General aims to decide 
whether to retain complaints within its jurisdiction and 
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statistics on how often such benchmark was met during 
the preceding year. 
(c) OFFICER FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIB-
ERTIES ANNUAL REPORT.—The Officer for Civil Rights 
and Civil Liberties of the Department shall include in an 
annual report submitted by the Officer to Congress— 
(1) the total number of Customs and Border 
Protection complaints received in the past year, bro-
ken down by whether the complaints were received 
directly or indirectly from another, specified compo-
nent of the Department, and how many of those 
complaints were accepted for investigation as well as 
completed; 
(2) the number of such complaints by subject- 
matter category, including a notation specifying a 
complaint raising multiple issues or originating from 
multiple complainants; and 
(3) the number of confidentiality complaints re-
ceived during the preceding year and the status and 
resolution of such complaints. 
SEC. 12. COOPERATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MEX-
ICO. 
(a) COOPERATION
REGARDING
BORDER
SECU-
RITY.—The Secretary of State, in cooperation with the 
Secretary of Homeland Security and representatives of 
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