Department of Homeland Security
CBP
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
CBP is the DHS component that inspects people and goods at ports of entry and patrols between them. It collects duties and enforces customs, immigration, and some agricultural laws at the border.
Homeland Security Act of 2002; Tariff Act of 1930 (as amended)Statute · Official site
Related cabinet principal: Markwayne Mullin · Secretary of Homeland Security
Agency pages always show both columns: assisting, and complicating / harming. Language is tied to documented outcomes or standing public functions with a source. If a side has no structured public items yet, that column says so. Never a page that only dunks or only praises.
Assisting
Documented outcomes or standing public functions — not vibes
Standing function · From the record
Lawful trade facilitation and duty collection
CBP clears merchandise and collects duties, taxes, and fees. Importers who comply use those systems to move goods. We do not invent a clearance-time statistic.
Standing function · From the record
Trusted Traveler programs and port-of-entry processing
Global Entry, SENTRI, NEXUS, and FAST are CBP programs that speed lawful travel and trade for enrolled people. Enrollment counts stay blank until a CBP open-data row is ingested.
Complicating / harming
Documented outcomes or standing public functions — not vibes
Standing function · From the record
Inspection, search, seizure, and expedited removal
CBP inspects travelers and cargo and may search, seize, or place a person in expedited removal under the INA. Those are documented enforcement outcomes that can complicate or harm the people subject to them. Incident-level rows stay empty until a sourced IG, court, or CBP statistics file is ingested.
Standing function · From the record
U.S. Border Patrol operations between ports of entry
Border Patrol apprehends people who cross between ports. Apprehension, detention, and return are documented outcomes. We do not invent a monthly total — CBP’s own statistics page is the link.
Watchdogs — indexes, not invented findings
Inspector General and GAO homepages. A homepage is not a finding. Specific IG or GAO rows appear on the ledger only when a sourced item is ingested.
Notable public actions
Federal Register documents attributed to this agency. Timeline only — not scored, not shoved onto a ledger side without a classification source.
No Federal Register rows ingested for this agency yet. Run npm run ingest:executive.