Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act
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1Short title
This section would let the Act be called the "Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act."
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act .
2Homeland security border threat assessment on Tren de Aragua; strategic plan
This section would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a border threat assessment on the Tren de Aragua criminal organization to the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs within 180 days after the Act becomes law, working in consultation with the intelligence community and the heads of any other federal departments or agencies the Secretary decides are appropriate. The assessment would have to identify current and potential criminal threats posed by Tren de Aragua members and affiliates who are trying to unlawfully enter the United States through the southwest, northern, or maritime border, or trying to exploit security vulnerabilities along those borders. It would also have to describe the group's origins, strategic aims, tactical methods, funding sources, leadership structure, and its chronological growth and presence in the United States, plus any other matters the Secretary considers appropriate. The assessment would be submitted in unclassified form but could include a classified annex. Within one year after the threat assessment is submitted, the Secretary, again consulting with the heads of other relevant federal departments or agencies as the Secretary determines appropriate, would have to submit to the same congressional committees a strategic plan for countering the threats identified in the assessment. That plan would have to consider, at a minimum: the threat assessment itself, with emphasis on mitigating criminal threats from transnational criminal organizations including the threats identified in the assessment; efforts to share border security and border threat information between Department of Homeland Security border security components and both other federal agencies with border-related missions and state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies whose jurisdictions are adjacent to the southwest, northern, or maritime border; efforts to locate, detect, interdict, and disrupt transnational criminal organizations, including Tren de Aragua; and efforts to prevent transnational criminal organizations, including Tren de Aragua, from proliferating in the United States. The section defines "appropriate congressional committees" as the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and defines "intelligence community" by reference to the meaning given that term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)).
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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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In the House.