# 119-hr-4071: Combatting International Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling Partnership Act of 2025

119-hr-4071, Combatting International Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling Partnership Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Guest, Michael [R-MS-3] (R-MS); status passed_house (as of 2026-07-15).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-4071
- Congress: 119
- Title: Combatting International Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling Partnership Act of 2025
- Status: passed_house
- Introduced: 2025-06-23
- Sponsor: Rep. Guest, Michael [R-MS-3] (R-MS)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Policy area: International Affairs
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-07-15

## Summary

**Expands U.S. Customs and Border Protection authority to operate in foreign countries.** It authorizes CBP officers with air and marine authorities to support foreign governments to monitor and deter illegal drugs, human smuggling, terrorist threats, carry out emergency humanitarian work, and build local law enforcement capacity. It also creates a limited payment-of-claims process for damages arising from those operations and imposes a five-year sunset on the authority. - Families and communities: Aims to reduce illegal drugs and cross-border smuggling that reach U.S. communities by authorizing overseas monitoring and tracking. - Foreign governments and local responders: Allows CBP to provide search and rescue, medical transport, air traffic control help, and training where a bilateral arrangement exists. - CBP operations and federal accountability: Permits the Secretary to use CBP operating funds to pay claims if filed within two years, requires a report within 90 days after the authority expires, and ends the expenditure authority after five years.

## Cosponsors (2)

- Rep. Pou, Nellie [D-NJ-9] (D-NJ), 2025-06-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2025-09-30T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Expanded foreign operations for border agents: benefit, medium. If enacted, certain border agents would be able to work with foreign governments inside their countries when both sides agree. They could help monitor, find, track, and deter illegal drugs, smuggling of people and goods, terrorist threats, and other threats to U.S. security or the economy. They cou…
- Paying claims from border actions abroad: benefit, low. If enacted, DHS could use operating funds to pay money-damage claims tied to CBP actions in foreign countries. Claims would have to be filed within two years of the incident, under 28 U.S.C. 2672 procedures. This payment authority would end five years after enactment. Within 90 days after it ends,…

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- 119-hr-2548: Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1065: Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025
- 119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- 119-hr-2853: Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-4071 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4071)

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- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-2548: Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2548)
- [119-hr-1065: Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1065)
- [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842)
- [119-hr-2853: Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2853)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4071 (as of 2026-07-15).