Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4070 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4070

  To require a homeland security border threat assessment on Tren de
     Aragua and associated strategic plan, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 23, 2025

 Mr. Knott (for himself, Mr. Guest, Mr. McCaul, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Crane,
 Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas, Mr. Garbarino, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Strong,
    Mr. Green of Tennessee, Mr. Brecheen, Mr. Gimenez, Mr. Evans of
 Colorado, Mr. McDowell, and Mr. Higgins of Louisiana) introduced the
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland
                                Security

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                                 A BILL

  To require a homeland security border threat assessment on Tren de
     Aragua and associated strategic plan, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tren de Aragua Border Security
Threat Assessment Act''.

SEC. 2. HOMELAND SECURITY BORDER THREAT ASSESSMENT ON TREN DE ARAGUA;
              STRATEGIC PLAN.

    (a) Threat Assessment.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
        the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security,
        in consultation with the intelligence community and the heads
        of other relevant Federal departments or agencies as the
        Secretary determines appropriate, shall submit to the
        appropriate congressional committees a border threat assessment
        regarding Tren de Aragua (in this section referred to as the
        ``threat assessment'').
            (2) Elements.--The threat assessment shall include the
        following:
                    (A) An identification of current and potential
                criminal threats posed by members of Tren de Aragua and
                affiliates seeking to--
                            (i) unlawfully enter the United States
                        through the southwest, northern, or maritime
                        border; or
                            (ii) exploit any security vulnerabilities
                        along the southwest, northern, or maritime
                        border.
                    (B) Descriptions of the following with respect to
                Tren de Aragua:
                            (i) Origins.
                            (ii) Strategic aims.
                            (iii) Tactical methods.
                            (iv) Funding sources.
                            (v) Leadership structure.
                            (vi) Chronological growth and presence in
                        the United States.
                    (C) Any other matters the Secretary of Homeland
                Security considers appropriate.
            (3) Form.--The threat assessment shall be submitted in
        unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
    (b) Strategic Plan.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than one year after the
        submission of the threat assessment under subsection (a), the
        Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the heads
        of other relevant Federal departments or agencies as the
        Secretary determines appropriate, shall submit to the
        appropriate congressional committees a strategic plan (in this
        subsection referred to as the ``Strategic Plan'') relating to
        countering the threats identified in the threat assessment, in
        accordance with paragraph (2).
            (2) Contents.--The Strategic Plan shall include, at a
        minimum, a consideration of the following:
                    (A) The threat assessment, with an emphasis on
                efforts to mitigate the criminal threats from
                transnational criminal organizations, including the
                threats identified in the threat assessment in
                accordance with subsection (a)(2)(A).
                    (B) Efforts to analyze and disseminate border
                security and border threat information between
                Department of Homeland Security border security
                components with the following:
                            (i) Other appropriate Federal departments
                        and agencies with missions associated with the
                        southwest, northern, or maritime border.
                            (ii) State, local, Tribal, and territorial
                        law enforcement agencies with jurisdictions
                        adjacent to the southwest, northern, or
                        maritime border.
                    (C) Efforts to locate, detect, interdict, and
                disrupt transnational criminal organizations, including
                Tren de Aragua.
                    (D) Efforts to prevent transnational criminal
                organizations, including Tren de Aragua, from
                proliferating in the United States.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Homeland Security of the House
                of Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Homeland Security and
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
            (2) Intelligence community.--The term ``intelligence
        community'' has the meaning given such term in section 3(4) of
        the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)).
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