Bureaucrats to the Border Act

Bill: 117-hr-8759
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Moore, Barry [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2022-08-30
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-08-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Bureaucrats to the Border Act</b></p> <p>This bill renames the DHS Volunteer Force of the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department of Homeland Security as the DHS Mission Support Force. It also requires new employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to serve in a 30-day detail with U.S. Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to assist with immigration proceedings at the southern border; the bill applies to new IRS employees who are hired as a result of recent funding increases for IRS enforcement activities.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8759 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 30, 2022 Mr. Moore of Alabama (for himself, Mr. Weber of Texas , Mr. Mullin , Mr. Ellzey , and Mr. Hice of Georgia ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means , and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security , and the Judiciary , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To direct all specified new employees of the IRS to assist with the processing through the immigration system of aliens unlawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bureaucrats to the Border Act . 2. DHS Volunteer Force renamed DHS Mission Support Force The DHS Volunteer Force of the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department of Homeland Security shall be known, on and after the date of the enactment of this Act, as the DHS Mission Support Force , and any reference to the DHS Volunteer Force in any law, regulation, rule, guidance, paper, map, or other document of the United States shall be deemed to be a reference to the DHS Mission Support Force. 3. New employees of the IRS to provide support at southern United States border (a) In general The Secretary of the Treasury shall require any specified new employee of the Internal Revenue Service to complete a 30-day support detail with the DHS Mission Support Force within 365 days of the date of hire of such specified new employee. (b) Definitions For purposes of this section— (1) Specified new employee The term specified new employee means any employee who— (A) is hired as a result of the funding increase for enhancement of Internal Revenue Service resources under clause (ii) or (iii) of section 10301(1)(A) of the Inflation Reduction Act, and (B) who meets the employment standards of the DHS Mission Support Force. (2) Support detail The term support detail means a detail with either U.S. Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of providing assistance at the southern border with the processing through the immigration system of aliens unlawfully present in the United States.