"[6] In essence, BORTAC teams often conduct drug raids on high-value targets, as well as sometimes being attached to Border Patrol or Air and Marine Operations units to assist them in their duties.

BORTAC teams are often used to provide a tactical federal law enforcement capability across the country, helping with security for events such as the Super Bowl, as well as being deployed to natural disaster areas to ensure that civil unrest does not break out.

Additionally, BORTAC teams can be called upon to assist local law enforcement in high-profile events such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots, where they were part of the 1,000 riot-trained federal special agents sent in an attempt to end the rioting in the Los Angeles region; and the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, where a BORTAC team inserted by helicopter shot and killed escaped prisoner Richard Matt.

[8] In April 2000, the BORTAC conducted Operation Reunion, in which it executed a raid on a home in Miami, Florida, and safely returned Cuban refugee Elián González to his family in Cuba.

[8] In 2002, BORTAC worked jointly with the United States Secret Service securing sports venues at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

[10][11] In 2022, during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the Del Rio sector field office nearby deployed BORTAC to help assist the local authorities.