This bill adds a new federal offense provision that increases punishments for certain felony crimes when they involve a minor and occur near schools, colleges, playgrounds, youth centers, public parks, public swimming pools, video arcades, or public housing authority housing. It creates a new section (2251B) that adds up to 10 years of imprisonment, served consecutively, for a listed felony involving a minor if committed within specified distances of those locations. The bill also changes the Controlled Substances Act to raise several monetary amount thresholds in 21 U.S.C. 841(b)(1) for violations involving a substance described in clause (vi) of that statute. Finally, the Department of Homeland Security must ensure that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection share certain information with each other, with State law enforcement in border States, and with local law enforcement within 100 miles of a land border; the Secretary must report that information to Congress every 180 days. The information to be shared and reported covers unlawful entry along the southern border; severe forms of trafficking and sex trafficking; alien smuggling; kidnapping of aliens for smuggling or trafficking; abuse or assault of aliens by smugglers or traffickers; smuggling of controlled substances and firearms; and the involvement of gangs or transnational criminal organizations in those activities.
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