Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires the Department of Homeland Security to submit a border threat assessment on Tren de Aragua within 180 days and, one year later, a strategic plan for countering the gang's border-related criminal threats and proliferation in the United States.
Who Benefits and How
Congress, border-security agencies, and adjacent law-enforcement partners could benefit from a formal assessment and strategic plan focused on Tren de Aragua's border-related activities, vulnerabilities, and threat patterns.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with the intelligence community and other agencies, must produce the threat assessment and then a follow-on strategic plan with interagency coordination and information-sharing components.
Key Provisions
- Requires a homeland security border threat assessment regarding Tren de Aragua within 180 days after enactment.
- Requires the assessment to identify current and potential criminal threats involving unlawful entry or exploitation of border security vulnerabilities across the southwest, northern, or maritime borders.
- Requires the assessment to describe the organization's origins, strategic aims, tactics, funding sources, leadership structure, and growth and presence in the United States.
- Requires a strategic plan one year after the assessment addressing mitigation, information sharing, disruption efforts, and prevention of further proliferation in the United States.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the Department of Homeland Security to submit a border threat assessment on Tren de Aragua within 180 days and, one year later, a strategic plan for countering the gang's border-related criminal threats and proliferation in the United States.
Key Policy Areas
Homeland Security, Immigration, Law Enforcement
Primary Purpose
Requires the Department of Homeland Security to submit a border threat assessment on Tren de Aragua within 180 days and, one year later, a strategic plan for countering the gang's border-related criminal threats and proliferation in the United States.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Congress and law-enforcement agencies seeking a more organized federal response to Tren de Aragua
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Department of Homeland Security and partner agencies responsible for producing and acting on the assessment and strategy
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland …
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Mr. Guest moved to suspend the rules and pass the …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4786-4788)
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the …
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