Department of Homeland Security

The United States Coast Guard (Coast Guard) has begun to expend Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) funds for the procurement, construction, and improvements projects identified in its fiscal year 2022 IIJA Spend Plan. At the time of our review, Coast Guard had only spent approximately 1...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) conducts individualized assessments of some land port of entry (LPOE) operations to evaluate workforce staffing, technology, and infrastructure improvements. While these assessments may have allowed OFO to optimize some LPOE...

From our limited testing, we did not identify a systemic issue in which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) lost revenue due to expired statute of limitations. We reviewed 152 penalty cases, totaling $858.1 million, and determined that 144 (95 percent) were either closed, settled, in litigation...

The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) can improve management of its research, development, testing, and evaluation (R&D) activities related to critical infrastructure security and resilience. Although S&T is actively making efforts to improve processes, it:• does not use a risk-based...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could not monitor the location and status of all unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) or initiate removal proceedings as needed. During our ongoing audit to assess ICE’s ability to monitor the location and status of UCs who were released or transferred...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not ensure that it closed out disaster declarations in a timely manner. We reviewed 79 disaster declarations and identified 26 programs with nearly $9.4 million in unliquidated funds that remained open beyond their approved periods of performance...

Although U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) responded to CBPOne™ application weaknesses after implementation, it did not formallyassess and mitigate the technological risks involved with expanding theapplication to allow undocumented noncitizens (noncitizens) to scheduleappointments to present...

In January 2024, we conducted onsite, unannounced inspections atfour U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities in the DelRio area, specifically three U.S. Border Patrol (Border Patrol)facilities and one Office of Field Operations (OFO) port of entry(POE).

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not fullyimplement the State-Administered Direct Housing Grant Programrequired by Section 1211(a) of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of2018 (DRRA). Specifically, as of March 2024, FEMA had not issuedfinal regulations to fully implement the program...