Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Chapter 415 — Resource Centers, Task Forces, Databases, and Programs
§ 41506. United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force
Statutory text
Task Force
The Attorney General shall establish the United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force in Laredo, Texas, to combat drug and firearms trafficking, violence, and kidnapping along the border between the United States and Mexico and to provide expertise to the law enforcement and homeland security agencies along the border between the United States and Mexico. The Task Force shall include personnel from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and Border Protection, other Federal agencies (as appropriate), the Texas Department of Public Safety, and local law enforcement agencies.
The Attorney General shall make available funds to provide for the ongoing administrative and technological costs to Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies participating in the Task Force.
Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2009, for—
the establishment and operation of the United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force; and
the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of individuals engaged in drug and firearms trafficking, violence, and kidnapping along the border between the United States and Mexico.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005
Pub. L. 109–162 title XI § 1106 · 119 Stat. 2960
Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 41506
(Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1106, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3093.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1106, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3093.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1106. UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDER VIOLENCE TASK FORCE. (a) Task Force.— (1) The Attorney General shall establish the United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force in Laredo, Texas, to combat drug and firearms trafficking, violence, and kidnapping along the border between the United States and Mexico and to provide expertise to the law enforcement and homeland security agencies along the border between the United States and Mexico. The Task Force shall include personnel from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and Border Protection, other Federal agencies (as appropriate), the Texas Department of Public Safety, and local law enforcement agencies. (2) The Attorney General shall make available funds to provide for the ongoing administrative and technological costs to Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies participating in the Task Force. (b) Authorization of Appropriations.— There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2009, for— (1) the establishment and operation of the United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force; and (2) the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of individuals engaged in drug and firearms trafficking, violence, and kidnapping along the border between the United States and Mexico.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified as a note under section 509 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.