U. S. Customs and Border Protection Strategy 2020-2025

The CBP Strategy 2020–2025 is focused on twelve strategic initiatives that will advance CBP’s ability to accomplish our mission. To reach our goals and better accomplish our daily tasks, CBP must improve existing capabilities, develop new ones for the changing operational environment, and adapt our processes to better organize, train, equip and sustain our frontline operators. The strategic initiatives laid out in this document address key challenges and opportunities which guide where CBP should focus its resources. In particular, the strategy lays out specific activities and outcomes that must be achieved while also acknowledging that unforeseen developments or events may require reassessment and reorientation.

Terrorism, transnational crime, cybercrimes and political and economic instability threaten the homeland. The increasing volume and diversity of cross border activity – from migration and movement to growing e-commerce – complicate the already difficult task of facilitating legitimate trade and travel. Terrorists and criminals attempt to enter the United States, hiding among the hundreds of millions of people into and out of the United States each year as well as entering illegally between ports of entry.