Title: Integrity in Border and Immigration Enforcement Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Integrity in Border and Immigration Enforcement Act
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to administer a polygraph examination to all applicants for law enforcement positions with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). DHS may not hire those who do not pass the polygraph test.
As part of background reinvestigations, DHS shall administer a polygraph examination to ICE and CBP agents who are at risk of corruption or misconduct. Additionally, DHS must randomly administer a polygraph examination each year to at least 5% of CBP and ICE agents who are undergoing background reinvestigations.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1560 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1560

 To ensure the integrity of border and immigration enforcement efforts 
 by requiring U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration 
    and Customs Enforcement to administer law enforcement polygraph 
  examinations to all applicants for law enforcement positions and to 
require post-hire polygraph examinations for law enforcement personnel 
                 as part of periodic reinvestigations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 13, 2017

  Mr. Durbin (for himself and Ms. Duckworth) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure the integrity of border and immigration enforcement efforts 
 by requiring U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration 
    and Customs Enforcement to administer law enforcement polygraph 
  examinations to all applicants for law enforcement positions and to 
require post-hire polygraph examinations for law enforcement personnel 
                 as part of periodic reinvestigations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Integrity in Border and Immigration 
Enforcement Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Law enforcement position.--The term ``law enforcement 
        position'' means any law enforcement position in U.S. Customs 
        and Border Protection (``CBP'') or U.S. Immigration and Customs 
        Enforcement (``ICE'').
            (2) Polygraph examination.--The term ``polygraph 
        examination'' means the Law Enforcement Pre-Employment Test 
        certified by the National Center for Credibility Assessment.

SEC. 3. POLYGRAPH EXAMINATIONS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL.

    (a) Applicants.--Beginning not later than 30 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security--
            (1) shall require that polygraph examinations are conducted 
        on all applicants for law enforcement positions; and
            (2) may not hire any applicant for a law enforcement 
        position who does not pass a polygraph examination.
    (b) Targeted Polygraph Reinvestigations.--Beginning not later than 
90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, as part of each background reinvestigation, shall 
administer a polygraph examination to--
            (1) every CBP law enforcement employee who is determined by 
        the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security to 
        be part of a population at risk of corruption or misconduct, 
        based on an analysis of past incidents of misconduct and 
        corruption; and
            (2) every ICE law enforcement employee who is determined by 
        the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security to 
        be part of a population at risk of corruption or misconduct, 
        based on an analysis of past incidents of misconduct and 
        corruption.
    (c) Delegation of Authority To Determine Targeted Polygraph 
Examinations.--The Inspector General of the Department of Homeland 
Security may--
            (1) delegate the authority under subsection (b)(1) to the 
        CBP Office of Professional Responsibility; and
            (2) delegate the authority under subsection (b)(2) to the 
        ICE Office of Professional Responsibility.
    (d) Random Polygraph Reinvestigations.--Beginning not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall--
            (1) randomly administer a polygraph examination each year 
        to at least 5 percent of CBP law enforcement employees who are 
        undergoing background reinvestigations during that year and 
        have not been selected for a targeted polygraph examination 
        under subsection (b)(1); and
            (2) randomly administer a polygraph examination each year 
        to at least 5 percent of ICE law enforcement employees who are 
        undergoing background reinvestigations during that year and 
        have not been selected for a targeted polygraph examination 
        under subsection (b)(2).
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