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This bill, the Border Transportation Efficiency Act, aims to expedite the transport of detainees to border patrol processing facilities. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Requiring the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner to ensure that at least 300 U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to remote border patrol stations have a commercial driver's license with a passenger endorsement for detainee transport. 2. Ensuring that each of the specific U.S. Border Patrol sectors (El Paso, Laredo, Rio Grande Valley, San Diego, Yuma, Tucson, Big Bend, Del Rio, and El Centro) have a minimum number of Border Patrol agents with commercial driver's licenses and buses assigned to the sector to avoid long wait times for detainees at remote border patrol stations. 3. Allowing Border Patrol agents to use official duty time to obtain and maintain their commercial driver's licenses. 4. Requiring the Department of Homeland Security to submit quarterly reports to Congress on the average length of detainees' stay at U.S. Border Patrol stations. The overall goal of the bill is to improve the efficiency of transporting detainees to processing facilities, reducing wait times and delays at remote border patrol stations.

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