- Federal agenciesSupports federal removal of noncitizen FTO members, enabling faster deportation or detention operations.
- StatesMay deter foreign organized crime groups from targeting the United States.
- Targeted stakeholdersEncourages bilateral law enforcement cooperation, as shown by the El Salvador detention agreement.
Expressing Support for the President's Actions to Safeguard National Security and Eliminate Threats from Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
This House resolution expresses support for the President’s recent measures treating certain transnational criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists, cites use of the Alien Enemies Act and two flights that returned noncitizen alleged gang members to El Salvador, and affirms presidential authority to detain, deport, or restrict noncitizens tied to such organizations.
H.Res is nonbinding and cannot create law; adoption by the House is plausible but enactment as law is not applicable.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill functions as a concise, symbolic House resolution that documents specific actions and expresses support for executive measures; it references relevant statutes and events but provides no operational, fiscal, or oversight detail.
Progressives emphasize due process and human-rights risks
Who stands to gain, and who may push back.
- Targeted stakeholdersRaises due process and habeas corpus concerns for detained or deported noncitizens.
- Targeted stakeholdersInvoking the Alien Enemies Act risks novel legal interpretations and constitutional challenges.
- Targeted stakeholdersTransfers to foreign detention centers raise human rights and treatment concerns.
Why the argument around this bill splits.
Progressives emphasize due process and human-rights risks
Skeptical and concerned.
While opposing violent transnational crime, this persona worries the resolution endorses overbroad executive power, weakens due process, and overlooks human rights risks when sending people to detention abroad.
Cautiously supportive of stronger tools to combat violent transnational groups, but wants clearer legal standards, congressional oversight, and protection of due process and foreign policy norms.
Strongly supportive.
Views the resolution as appropriate backing for decisive executive action to remove dangerous noncitizens and protect U.S. territory, law enforcement, and citizens from transnational criminal threats.
The path through Congress.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
H.Res is nonbinding and cannot create law; adoption by the House is plausible but enactment as law is not applicable.
- Whether the Judiciary Committee will schedule or report the resolution
- Degree of partisan unity or opposition in House floor voting
Recent votes on the bill.
No vote history yet
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
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Progressives emphasize due process and human-rights risks
H.Res is nonbinding and cannot create law; adoption by the House is plausible but enactment as law is not applicable.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill functions as a concise, symbolic House resolution that documents specific actions and expresses support for executive measures; it references relevant statutes and ev…
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