1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Border Security and Migrant Safety Act of 2023 . 2. Border security and migrant safety (a) DHS integrated border intelligence analytical cell The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish within the National Targeting Center of U.S. Customs and Border Protection a dedicated intelligence cell focused on sharing information regarding concentrated surges of migrants arriving at the land border of the United States, and illicit smuggling and trafficking that may pose a border security, homeland security, public health, or other threat to the land border of the United States. Such cell shall integrate intelligence capabilities from across the Department of Homeland Security to carry out the following: (1) Develop intelligence products to improve the Department’s ability to track, prepare for, and manage in a humane and effective manner concentrated surges of migrants arriving along the land border of the United States. (2) Report on transnational criminal organizations exploiting migrating populations and migration routes to smuggle narcotics and other illicit goods across the land border of the United States. (3) Support Federal efforts to dismantle or disrupt illicit smuggling and trafficking along the land border of the United States. (4) Report on communications by transnational criminal organizations and other malicious actors that seek to encourage illicit migrant travel to the United States. (5) Develop other related intelligence products that support the Department’s border security operations. (b) Department of Homeland Security Joint Task Force To combat transnational criminal organizations exploiting migration surges (1) In general Notwithstanding subsection (b)(11) of section 708 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 348 ), not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, pursuant to such section, establish a departmental Joint Task Force to conduct operations using personnel and