No More Narcos Act

The No More Narcos Act would require the federal government to take concrete steps to deter and prevent minors from working with cartels and other transnational criminal organizations. Within one year of enactment, the Department of Justice (through the Drug Enforcement Administration) in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Education, the Director of National Drug Control Policy, and other appropriate agencies would launch an informational campaign aimed at students most at risk and implement a national strategy to counter cartel recruitment of minors for unlawful smuggling or trafficking. The measure also broadens the DOJ’s Assets Forfeiture Fund to cover payments for both the informational campaign and the national strategy. The act focuses specifically on middle and high school students in communities within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. Key definitions make clear the scope: a “covered student” are middle and high school students in border-adjacent areas; “transnational criminal organizations” are groups that operate across borders to gain power or money through illegal means and engage in activities such as drug and weapons trafficking, migrant and human trafficking, cybercrime, money laundering, and other illicit activities. The bill does not create new penalties but directs interagency action and funding to education and strategic efforts.