1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Securing our Border Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) United States border security is paramount to the general welfare of our Nation and ensures the efficient and meaningful flow of goods and individuals through legal means. (2) Illicit narcotics transported into the United States through ports of entry were estimated to cause approximately 104,000 deaths between February 2021 and February 2022. (3) Only 2 percent of passenger vehicles and 20 percent of commercial vehicles crossing the southern border are scanned by nonintrusive inspection technology through a radiation portal monitor. (4) U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents process more than 1,000,000 passengers and pedestrians on a typical day. (5) Limiting the amount of deadly illicit narcotics, including fentanyl, from entering the United States would reduce the number of Americans who die annually from the use of such narcotics. (6) Because of the failure to update nonintrusive inspection technologies at land ports of entry along the southern border of the United States, there has been an increase in the amount of illicit narcotics, such as fentanyl, being trafficked across the southern border. (7) Between 2021 and 2022, approximately 1,514,000 pounds of illicit drugs were seized at the southern border. (8) U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents had 199,976 encounters at the southern border during July 2022, including— (A) 134,362 single adults; (B) 51,822 family units; and (C) 13,299 unaccompanied minors. (9) According to the Department of Homeland Security, 750 migrants died attempting to cross the southern border during fiscal year 2022, which is— (A) more migrant deaths than occurred in any previous fiscal year