# 119-hr-5980: Mexico Cross-Border Crime Accountability Act

119-hr-5980, Mexico Cross-Border Crime Accountability Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Shreve, Jefferson [R-IN-6] (R-IN); status introduced (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-5980
- Congress: 119
- Title: Mexico Cross-Border Crime Accountability Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-11-07
- Sponsor: Rep. Shreve, Jefferson [R-IN-6] (R-IN)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: International Affairs
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**A detailed U.S. strategy for security assistance to Mexico.** This bill would require the Secretary of State to produce a public, evidence-based plan for U.S. security aid that focuses on dismantling transnational criminal networks and strengthening Mexican institutions. - Families and U.S. communities: The strategy must target networks that traffic illicit drugs, including fentanyl, into the United States and outline projects to reduce drug-related harms and cross-border crime. - Mexican security and justice institutions: The plan would set out how to increase the capacity of Mexico’s military and public security forces to secure northern and southern borders and how to strengthen civilian law enforcement, prosecutors, and courts. - Victims of trafficking and migrants: The required strategy explicitly covers pervasive human trafficking and human smuggling and includes projects to address those crimes. - Oversight and accountability: The report must list implementing U.S. and nongovernmental partners, set priorities, baselines, milestones, and performance measures, provide a monitoring and evaluation plan, and include a fraud risk assessment for programs under the Bicentennial Framework. The report must be submitted in unclassified form with an optional classified annex and updated in writing and by briefing one year after submission and annually for two years.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Plan and oversight for Mexico security aid: benefit, medium. Within 180 days of enactment, the Secretary of State would send the Senate and House foreign affairs committees a public report with a plan for U.S. security aid to Mexico. The plan would target dismantling transnational criminal networks that traffic fentanyl and other drugs, and profit from human…
- No war authorization against Mexico: benefit, low. The bill would state that nothing in it authorizes the use of military force against Mexico or any entity in Mexico. This limit would apply upon enactment and only to how this act is read and used.

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- 119-hr-7613: ALERT Act
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- 119-hr-3479: SECURE American Telecommunications Act
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-5980 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5980)

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- [119-hr-7613: ALERT Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7613)
- [119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9298)
- [119-hr-3479: SECURE American Telecommunications Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3479)
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5980 (as of 2026-04-21).