HR 4070
Passed a chamber
Requires the Department of Homeland Security to submit a threat assessment on the Tren de Aragua criminal group's border activities within 180 days, followed by a strategic plan to counter it within one year after that.
Official title: Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
23-JUN-2025
Referred
23-JUN-2025
Approved by committee
25-JUN-2025
Reported
26-SEP-2025
On the calendar
26-SEP-2025
Passed
19-NOV-2025
Senate
Received
20-NOV-2025
- Requires the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with the intelligence community, to submit an unclassified border threat assessment on Tren de Aragua within 180 days of enactment, with a classified annex allowed.
- The assessment covers the group's origins, strategic aims, tactical methods, funding sources, leadership structure, and growth in the United States, along with threats to the southwest, northern, and maritime borders.
- Requires a strategic plan within one year after the assessment to locate, disrupt, and prevent transnational criminal organizations, and to share border threat information with other federal agencies and state, local, Tribal, and territorial law enforcement.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (23-JUN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 19-NOV-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Homeland Security Committee (House)
- Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee
- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)
Immigration
■ 31 R
31 Republicans
- Don Bacon
- Sheri Biggs
- Josh Brecheen
- Elijah Crane
- Dan Crenshaw
- Gabe Evans
- Russell Fry
- Andrew R. Garbarino
- Carlos A. Gimenez
- Craig A. Goldman
- Tony Gonzales
- Mark Green
- Marjorie Greene
- Michael Guest
- Abraham J. Hamadeh
- Clay Higgins
- Bill Huizenga
- Michael Lawler
- Morgan Luttrell
- Ryan Mackenzie
- Michael T. McCaul
- Addison P. McDowell
- John J. McGuire
- Tim Moore
- Andrew Ogles