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GAO-17-89R 1 (2016-10-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaakht0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G40 U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 October 17, 2016 The Honorable Ron Johnson Chairman The Honorable Thomas R. Carper Ranking Member Committee on Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Michael McCaul Chairman The Honorable Bennie G. Thompson Ranking Member Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Contracting for Transportation and Guard Services for Detainees The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the lead federal agency charged with keeping terrorists and their weapons, criminals and their contraband, and inadmissible aliens out of the country. Within CBP, the Office of Field Operations (OFO) inspects individuals at designated U.S. ports of entry (ports) to determine their admissibility to the country and the U.S. Border Patrol (Border Patrol) interdicts and apprehends aliens between ports.1 During fiscal year 2015, Border Patrol apprehended 331,333 aliens across its nine southwest border sectors, accounting for 98 percent of Border Patrol's total apprehensions in all 20 of its sectors.2 Border Patrol and OFO can detain apprehended or inadmissible aliens at Border Patrol stations and ports in order to process them and determine additional courses of action, such as transfers to a court, a local jail, or U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, or for release or admission. Thus, CBP coordinates the security, monitoring and movement of apprehended individuals to or from several locations within and across 1 Ports of entry are facilities that provide for the controlled entry into or departure from the United States. Specifically, a port of entry is any officially designated location (seaport, airport, or land border location) where DHS officers or employees are assigned to clear passengers and merchandise, collect duties, and enforce customs laws, and where a person may apply for admission into the United States pursuant to U.S. immigration laws. 2 Each of the nine southwest Border Patrol sectors has a headquarters with management personnel and these sectors are further divided geographically into varying numbers of stations, with agents assigned to patrol defined geographic areas. GAO-1 7-89R U.S. Customs and Border Protection Page 1

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