Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act
Sponsored By: Representative Knott
Passed House
Summary
Assess and counter Tren de Aragua's border threats. This bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to deliver a detailed border threat assessment within 180 days and a strategic plan within one year to guide federal and local responses.
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- Border communities and local law enforcement: Would receive clearer analysis and coordinated guidance to locate, detect, interdict, and disrupt Tren de Aragua activity along the southwest, northern, and maritime borders.
- Federal agencies and the intelligence community: Must prepare an unclassified threat assessment, with a classified annex option, that describes the group's origins, strategic aims, tactics, funding sources, leadership structure, and U.S. presence.
- Congress and oversight bodies: The House Homeland Security Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee would get the assessment and strategic plan to inform policy and oversight actions.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Homeland Security threat report and plan on Tren de Aragua
This bill would require Homeland Security to send a Tren de Aragua border threat report within 180 days to the House and Senate homeland security committees. It would be unclassified, with a classified annex allowed. The report would be prepared with the intelligence community and other federal agencies, and cover threats at the southwest, northern, and maritime borders, plus the group’s origins, aims, methods, funding, leaders, and U.S. growth. Within one year after that report is sent, Homeland Security would have to submit a Strategic Plan. The plan, developed with other federal agencies, would focus on sharing border threat data with federal, state, local, Tribal, and territorial partners, finding and stopping these groups, and preventing their spread in the United States.
Who gets the reports, who is consulted
This bill would define who receives the reports and who Homeland Security consults. The House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs would get the reports. The term “intelligence community” would use the definition in 50 U.S.C. 3003(4).
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Knott
NC • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Guest, Michael [R-MS-3]
MS • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
TX • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
TN • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Crane
AZ • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Gonzales, Tony
TX • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Rep. Garbarino, Andrew R. [R-NY-2]
NY • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Rep. Mackenzie, Ryan [R-PA-7]
PA • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Rep. Strong, Dale W. [R-AL-5]
AL • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Green (TN)
TN • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Brecheen
OK • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Rep. Gimenez, Carlos A. [R-FL-28]
FL • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Evans (CO)
CO • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
McDowell
NC • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]
LA • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Biggs (SC)
SC • R
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Rep. Luttrell, Morgan [R-TX-8]
TX • R
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
NE • R
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Pfluger
TX • R
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
SC • R
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-4]
MI • R
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Greene (GA)
GA • R
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]
NY • R
Sponsored 6/25/2025
Crenshaw
TX • R
Sponsored 6/25/2025
Moore (NC)
NC • R
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
FL • R
Sponsored 7/2/2025
Rep. Hamadeh, Abraham J. [R-AZ-8]
AZ • R
Sponsored 7/2/2025
McGuire
VA • R
Sponsored 7/7/2025
Goldman (TX)
TX • R
Sponsored 7/15/2025
Rep. Palmer, Gary J. [R-AL-6]
AL • R
Sponsored 7/21/2025
Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-5]
MI • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Rep. Fry, Russell [R-SC-7]
SC • R
Sponsored 8/29/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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