---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 255"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "255"
heading: "Report on improving enforcement functions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/255"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter IV — Border, Maritime, and Transportation Security"
  - "Part D — Immigration Enforcement Functions"
---

# §255. Report on improving enforcement functions

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16), not later than 1 year after being sworn into office, shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations and the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate a report with a plan detailing how the Bureau of Border Security, after the transfer of [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) specified under [section 251 of this title](/usc/6/251.md) takes effect, will enforce comprehensively, effectively, and fairly all the enforcement provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act ([8 U.S.C. 1101](/usc/8/1101.md) et seq.) relating to such [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9).
- (b) **Consultation—** In carrying out [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) of [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security shall consult with the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the [Director](/usc/6/677a.md?p=3) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) of the Treasury, the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) of Labor, the Commissioner of Social Security, the [Director](/usc/6/677a.md?p=3) of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, and the heads of [State](/usc/6/101.md?p=17) and local law enforcement [agencies](/usc/6/671.md?p=1) to determine how to most effectively conduct enforcement operations.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 445, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2194.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Immigration and Nationality Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act June 27, 1952, ch. 477, 66 Stat. 163, which is classified principally to chapter 12 (§ 1101 et seq.) of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1101 of Title 8 and Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Bureau of Border Security, referred to in subsec. (a), changed to Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Reorganization Plan Modification for the Department of Homeland Security, eff. Mar. 1, 2003, H. Doc. No. 108–32, 108th Congress, 1st Session, set out as a note under section 542 of this title.