---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2296c"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2296c"
heading: "Border control assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2296c"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Foreign Assistance"
  - "Subchapter I — International Development"
  - "Part XII — Support for the Economic and Political Independence of the Countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia"
---

# §2296c. Border control assistance

- (a) **Purpose of assistance—** The purpose of assistance under this section includes the assistance of the [countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia](/usc/22/2296f.md?p=2) to secure their borders and implement effective controls necessary to prevent the trafficking of illegal narcotics and the proliferation of technology and materials related to weapons of mass destruction (as defined in [section 2332a(c)(2) of title 18](/usc/18/2332a.md?p=c-2)), and to contain and inhibit transnational organized criminal activities.
- (b) **Authorization for assistance—** To carry out the purpose of [subsection (a)](#a), the President is authorized to provide assistance to the [countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia](/usc/22/2296f.md?p=2) to [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) the activities described in [subsection (c)](#c).
- (c) **Activities supported—** Activities that may be supported by assistance under [subsection (b)](#b) include assisting those [countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia](/usc/22/2296f.md?p=2) in developing capabilities to maintain national border guards, coast guard, and customs controls.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 499C, as added Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(2) [title V, § 596(b)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1535, 1501A–124.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

For delegation of functions of President under this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 12163, Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56673, as amended, set out as a note under section 2381 of this title.