and guidelines, intervention, community relations, 
and professional conduct. 
(3) Mitigation training to identify, diagnose, 
and address issues within such supervisory and man-
agement roles. 
(d) REVIEW PROCESS.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall establish a review process to ensure that 
port supervisors and managers of U.S. Customs and Bor-
der Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement, as the case may be, are evaluated annually on 
their actions and standards of conduct, and on the actions, 
situational and educational development, and standards of 
conduct of their staffs. 
(e) CONTINUING EDUCATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall annually require all agents and offi-
cers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who 
are required to undergo training under subsections 
(a) through (c) to participate in continuing edu-
cation to maintain and update understanding of 
Federal legal rulings, court decisions, and Depart-
ment of Homeland Security policies, procedures, and 
guidelines related to the subject matters described in 
such subsections. 
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(2) CONSTITUTIONAL
AUTHORITY
SUBJECT 
MATTER.—Continuing education under this sub-
section shall include a course on protecting the civil, 
constitutional, human, and privacy rights of individ-
uals, with special emphasis on the scope of enforce-
ment authority, including chain of evidence practices 
and document seizure, and use of force policies 
available to agents and officers. 
(3) ADDITIONAL
SUBJECT
MATTERS.—Con-
tinuing education under this subsection shall also in-
clude a course on the following: 
(A) Scope of authority to conduct immigra-
tion enforcement activities, including interviews, 
interrogations, stops, searches, arrests, and de-
tentions, in addition to identifying and detect-
ing fraudulent documents. 
(B) Identifying, screening, and responsi-
bility for vulnerable populations, such as chil-
dren and victims of trafficking. 
(C) Cultural and societal issues, including 
understanding of the diversity of immigrant 
communities, language and basic cultural 
awareness of major migrant-sending countries, 
and natural resource protection and environ-
mental policies along the border. 
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(4) ADMINISTRATION.—Courses offered as part 
of continuing education under this subsection 
shall— 
(A) be administered in consultation with 
FLETC by the individual Border Patrol sectors 
and the Office of Field Operations of the De-
partment of Homeland Security in order to pro-
vide such sectors field offices with flexibility to 
design or tailor such courses to the specific 
needs and conditions of each such sector and 
field office; and 
(B) be approved by the Secretary of Home-
land Security before being offered to ensure 
that such courses satisfy the requirements for 
training under this section. 
(5) ROTATION.—Courses offered as part of con-
tinuing education under this subsection shall in-
clude— 
(A) a yearly course focusing on the cur-
riculum described in paragraph (2); and 
(B) an additional course to be rotated on 
a three-year basis focusing on curriculum de-
scribed in paragraph (3). 
(f) ASSESSMENT.—Not later than six years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 
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of the United States shall submit to the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs of the Senate a report that assesses the training 
and education, including continuing education, required 
under this section. 
SEC. 5. MANAGEMENT OF PORTS OF ENTRY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Home-
land Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland 
Security of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate a report that contains an assessment of the 
current standards and guidelines for managing ports of 
entry under the control of the Department of Homeland 
Security. Such assessment shall include information relat-
ing to the following: 
(1) Staffing levels and the need for additional 
staffing. 
(2) Rules governing the actions of Office of 
Field Operations agents. 
(3) Average delays for transit through air, land, 
and sea ports of entry. 
(4) An assessment of existing efforts and tech-
nologies used for border security, and the effect of 
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the use of such efforts and technologies on facili-
tating trade at ports of entry and their impact on 
civil rights, private property rights, privacy rights, 
and civil liberties. 
(5) The economic impact of the policies and 
practices of CBP Agricultural Specialists and Office 
of Field Operations work. 
(6) Physical infrastructure and technological 
needs at ports of entry. 
(b) UPDATES.—Based upon the information and as-
sessment contained in the report required under sub-
section (a), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall es-
tablish updated guidelines and standards for managing 
ports of entry under the control of the Department of 
Homeland Security to address any identified needs or 
shortcomings at such ports of entry, including, if applica-
ble, the following: 
(1) Increasing levels of staffing of CBP Agricul-
tural Specialists at ports of entry at which delays 
hinder or negatively impact the local or national 
economies. 
(2) Increasing the use of or updating tech-
nology at ports of entry at which there are average 
delays of over two hours based on CBP data col-
lected during the previous fiscal year. 
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