Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act
The Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with input from the intelligence community and other relevant federal agencies, to produce a border threat assessment focused on the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization and its affiliates. The assessment must identify current and potential threats to U.S. borders (southwest, northern, and maritime) posed by Tren de Aragua, including their origins, aims, methods, funding, leadership, and growth in the United States. The report would be submitted in unclassified form (with a possible classified annex) to Congress within 180 days of enactment. Within one year after the threat assessment, DHS would also develop a Strategic Plan to counter the identified threats, emphasizing interagency information sharing, interdiction and disruption efforts, and prevention of Tren de Aragua proliferation in the United States. The plan would involve DHS components, other federal departments/agencies, and state/local/tribal/territorial law enforcement as appropriate.
Key Points
- 1180-day deadline for a border threat assessment on Tren de Aragua, to be submitted in unclassified form (with a possible classified annex) to the relevant congressional committees.
- 2The threat assessment must cover: current and potential threats to entry or border security, and detailed information on Tren de Aragua’s origins, strategic aims, methods, funding, leadership, and growth/presence in the U.S.
- 3One-year deadline for a Strategic Plan to counter the identified threats, including mitigation of criminal threats from Tren de Aragua and related transnational criminal organizations.
- 4Strategic Plan must address information sharing among DHS border security components and other federal agencies, as well as coordination with state, local, Tribal, and territorial law enforcement with border jurisdictions.
- 5The plan should outline efforts to locate, detect, interdict, disrupt Tren de Aragua, and prevent its proliferation in the United States.