Title: Shadow Wolves Enhancement Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Shadow Wolves Enhancement Act
This bill authorizes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to reclassify officers assigned to the tactical patrol unit on Tohono O'odham Nation land, commonly known as Shadow Wolves, as ICE special agents upon completing certain required training. Officers assigned to a comparable unit, regardless of location, may also be reclassified as ICE special agents upon completing the training.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office shall separately study and report on the best processes for expanding the Shadow Wolves program.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2541 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2541

To authorize the reclassification of the tactical enforcement officers 
  (commonly known as the ``Shadow Wolves'') in the Homeland Security 
   Investigations tactical patrol unit operating on the lands of the 
                Tohono O'odham Nation as special agents.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 29, 2021

Ms. Sinema (for herself and Mr. Hoeven) 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 authorize the reclassification of the tactical enforcement officers 
  (commonly known as the ``Shadow Wolves'') in the Homeland Security 
   Investigations tactical patrol unit operating on the lands of the 
                Tohono O'odham Nation as special agents.

    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 ``Shadow Wolves Enhancement Act''.

SEC. 2. RECLASSIFICATION OF SHADOW WOLVES AS GS-1811 SPECIAL AGENTS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is authorized--
            (1) to reclassify the GS-1801 tactical enforcement officers 
        (commonly known as ``Shadow Wolves'') assigned to the Homeland 
        Security Investigations tactical patrol unit operating on the 
        lands of the Tohono O'odham Nation, as of the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, as GS-1811 special agents, upon the 
        successful completion of--
                    (A) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's 
                Criminal Investigator Training Program; and
                    (B)(i) Customs Basic Enforcement School, if the 
                officer was hired before March 2003; or
                    (ii) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
                Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent 
                Training, if the officer was hired during or after 
                March 2003;
            (2) to classify any Shadow Wolves who are assigned to the 
        unit referred to in paragraph (1) after such date of enactment 
        as special agents upon the successful completion of the 
        training described in paragraph (1); and
            (3) to classify any Shadow Wolves who are hired as part of 
        a comparable unit (regardless of location) after such date of 
        enactment as special agents upon the successful completion of 
        the training described in paragraph (1).

SEC. 3. EXPANSION OF SHADOW WOLVES PROGRAM.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the Comptroller 
General of the United States, the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Committee on Homeland 
Security of the House of Representatives a strategy for--
            (1) retaining existing Shadow Wolves;
            (2) recruiting new Shadow Wolves;
            (3) expanding comparable units referred to in section 2(3) 
        to appropriate areas near the international border between the 
        United States and Canada or the international border between 
        the United States and Mexico, with the approval and consent of 
        the appropriate Indian tribe; and
            (4) determining the best process for expanding the reach of 
        the Shadow Wolves Program to include historically and 
        culturally significant areas for Tribal communities that are 
        not located on Tribal lands.

SEC. 4. GAO STUDY.

    (a) Study.--The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
conduct a study to determine the best process for expanding the reach 
of the Shadow Wolves Program to include historically and culturally 
significant areas for tribal communities that are not located on tribal 
lands.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 1 year after receiving the strategy 
under section 3, and annually for the following 2 years, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the 
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives--
            (1) an assessment of the effectiveness of such strategy; 
        and
            (2) any recommendations for improvements to the strategy 
        that the Comptroller General determines to be appropriate.
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