S2525-119

In Committee

Transnational Repression Policy Act

119th Congress Introduced Jul 29, 2025

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Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Transnational Repression Policy Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Criminal Justice, Government Operations.

Who Benefits and How

immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Transnational Repression Policy Act. The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
  • Section ide8992d79b8234096adc1b9c6ea4b8afc: 2. Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States— to protect persons within the United States, and United States nationals who are outside of the...
  • Section idb6e7da3a3cc44a138f989f66b386641a: 3. Defined term In this Act, the term transnational repression refers to a range of tactics deployed by a foreign government, or agents or proxies of a foreign...
  • Section id4d2162c4e9604458ac92e5fddb77112f: 4. Interagency strategy Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the heads of other...
  • Section id333bcd67dddf465288ff8ae6b2bd7c2f: 5. Training The Secretary of State should make training available to Department of State personnel, including overseas mission leadership, as appropriate, and...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Transnational Repression Policy Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Key Policy Areas

Immigration, Criminal Justice, Government Operations

Primary Purpose

This bill, Transnational Repression Policy Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Policy Domains

Immigration Criminal Justice Government Operations

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
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immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
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federal implementing agencies: ,
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers: ,

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jul 29, 2025

Mr. Merkley (for himself and Mr. Sullivan) introduced the following …

Jul 29, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Jul 29, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Immigration Criminal Justice Government Operations
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_homeland_security"
→ Secretary of Homeland Security

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