U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ATEST welcomes recent legislation to strengthen the authority to prohibit the importation of goods made with forced or prison labor into the United States, by repealing the exception for goods...

THE NEED FOR FUNDING AND REPORT LANGUAGE $34,400,000 to support investigations, training, and victim services by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to combat forced labor and trafficking in persons, including new positions to expand ICE investigations of suspected forced labor...

THE REPORT LANGUAGE NEED Encouraging CBP to work with appropriate nonprofit organizations and victim services providers to improve the training of CBP officers in the field to assist in the identification of human trafficking victims and provide appropriate referrals to victim...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Figure 7: DHS Appropriations History

THE NEED FOR FUNDING AND REPORT LANGUAGE $8,800,000 above the President’s request to support 40 new positions to conduct forced labor and human trafficking investigations by ICE. $20,000,000 for the Child Exploitation Investigations Unit within the ICE Cyber Crimes Center to...

THE REPORT LANGUAGE NEED Like ICE officers, CBP officers play an integral role in our efforts to combat human trafficking, most especially at our borders. Training the agents to understand and appreciate the nuances of human trafficking cases and to accurately identify trafficking...