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6 U.S.C. § 293 — Transition

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6 U.S.C. § 293 — Transition

**(a) References** With respect to any function transferred by this part to, and exercised on or after the effective date specified in section 455 11 See References in Text note below. by, the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, any reference in any other Federal law, Executive order, rule, regulation, or delegation of authority, or any document of or pertaining to a component of government from which such function is transferred— (1) to the head of such component is deemed to refer to the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services; or (2) to such component is deemed to refer to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. **(b) Other transition issues** (1) **Exercise of authorities** — Except as otherwise provided by law, a Federal official to whom a function is transferred by this part may, for purposes of performing the function, exercise all authorities under any other provision of law that were available with respect to the performance of that function to the official responsible for the performance of the function immediately before the effective date specified in section 455.1 (2) **Transfer and allocation of appropriations and personnel** — The personnel of the Department of Justice employed in connection with the functions transferred by this part (and functions that the Secretary determines are properly related to the functions of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services), and the assets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balance of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available to, the Immigration and Naturalization Service in connection with the functions transferred by this par

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**(a) References** With respect to any function transferred by this part to, and exercised on or after the effective date specified in section 455 11 See References in Text note below. by, the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, any reference in any other Federal law, Executive order, rule, regulation, or delegation of authority, or any document of or pertaining to a component of government from which such function is transferred— (1) to the head of such component is deemed to refer to the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services; or (2) to such component is deemed to refer to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. **(b) Other transition issues** (1) **Exercise of authorities** — Except as otherwise provided by law, a Federal official to whom a function is transferred by this part may, for purposes of performing the function, exercise all authorities under any other provision of law that were available with respect to the performance of that function to the official responsible for the performance of the function immediately before the effective date specified in section 455.1 (2) **Transfer and allocation of appropriations and personnel** — The personnel of the Department of Justice employed in connection with the functions transferred by this part (and functions that the Secretary determines are properly related to the functions of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services), and the assets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balance of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available to, the Immigration and Naturalization Service in connection with the functions transferred by this part, subject to [section 1531 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1531&num=0&edition=prelim), shall be transferred to the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services for allocation to the appropriate component of the Department. Unexpended funds transferred pursuant to this paragraph shall be used only for the purposes for which the funds were originally authorized and appropriated. The Secretary shall have the right to adjust or realign transfers of funds and personnel effected pursuant to this part for a period of 2 years after the effective date specified in section 455.1

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6 U.S.C. § 251 — Prevention of international child abduction

**(a) Program established** The Secretary, through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (referred to in this section as “CBP”), in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall establish a program that— (1) seeks to prevent a child (as defined in [section 1204(b)(1) of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1204/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim)) from departing from the territory of the United States if a parent or legal guardian of such child presents a court order from a court of competent jurisdiction prohibiting the removal of such child from the United States to a CBP Officer in sufficient time to prevent such departure for the duration of such court order; and (2) leverages other existing authorities and processes to address the wrongful removal and return of a child. **(b) Interagency coordination** (1) **In general** — The Secretary of State shall convene and chair an interagency working group to prevent international parental child abduction. The group shall be composed of presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed officials from— (A) the Department of State; (B) the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and (C) the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (2) **Department of Defense** — The Secretary of Defense shall designate an official within the Department of Defense— (A) to coordinate with the Department of State on international child abduction issues; and (B) to oversee activities designed to prevent or resolve international child abduction cases relating to active duty military servic

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6 U.S.C. § 271 — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

**(a) Establishment** (1) **In general** — There shall be in the Department of Homeland Security a bureau to be known as the “Bureau of Border Security”. (2) **Assistant Secretary** — The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall be the Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who— (A) shall report directly to the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security; and (B) shall have a minimum of 5 years professional experience in law enforcement, and a minimum of 5 years of management experience. (3) **Functions** — The Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement— (A) shall establish the policies for performing such functions as are— (i) transferred to the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security by [section 251 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section251&num=0&edition=prelim) and delegated to the Assistant Secretary by the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security; or (ii) otherwise vested in the Assistant Secretary by law; (B) shall oversee the administration of such policies; and (C) shall advise the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security with respect to any policy or operation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement affecting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services established under part E of this subchapter, including potentially conflicting policies or operations. (4) **Program to collect information relating to foreign students** — The Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall be responsible for administering the program to collect information relating to nonimmigrant foreign students and other exchange program participants described in [section 137

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31 U.S.C. § 1531 — Transfers of functions and activities

**(a)** The balance of an appropriation available and necessary to finance or discharge a function or activity transferred or assigned under law within an executive agency or from one executive agency to another may be transferred to and used— (1) by the organizational unit or agency to which the function or activity was transferred or assigned; and (2) for a purpose for which the appropriation was originally available. **(b)** The head of the executive agency determines the amount that, with the approval of the President, is necessary to be transferred when the transfer or assignment of the function or activity is within the agency. The President determines the amount necessary to be transferred when the transfer or assignment of the function or activity is from one executive agency to another. **(c)** A balance transferred under this section is— (1) credited to an applicable existing or new appropriation account; (2) merged with the amount in an account to which the balance is credited; and (3) with the amount with which the balance is merged, accounted for as one amount. **(d)** New appropriation accounts may be established to carry out subsection (c)(1) of this section.

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6 U.S.C. § 293 — Authority to conduct a demonstration

Page 148 TITLE 6—DOMESTIC SECURITY § 293 Justice and the Department of Homeland Se- curity shall, for each fiscal year with respect to which it makes any voluntary separation incentive payments under this section, remit to the Office of Personnel Management for de- posit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund the amount required under paragraph (2). (2) Amount required The amount required under this paragraph shall, for any fiscal year, be the amount under subparagraph (A) or (B), whichever is greater. (A) First method The amount under this subparagraph shall, for any fiscal year, be equal to the minimum amount necessary to offset the additional costs to the retirement systems under title 5 (payable out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund) resulting from the vol- untary separation of the employees de- scribed in paragraph (3), as determined under regulations of the Office of Personnel Management. (B) Second method The amount under this subparagraph shall, for any fiscal year, be equal to 45 percent of the sum total of the final basic pay of the employees described in paragraph (3). (3) Computations to be based on separations occurring in the fiscal year involved The employees described in this paragraph are those employees who receive a voluntary separation incentive payment under this sec- tion based on their separating from service during the fiscal year with respect to which the payment under this subsection relates. (4) Final basic pay defined In this subsection, the term ‘‘final basic pay’’ means, with respect to an employee, the total amount of basic pay which would be pay- able for a year of service by such employee, computed using the employee’s fi

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