IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 303 
Recognizing that members and affiliates of Tren de Aragua are alien enemies 
perpetrating an invasion of the United States and affirming that the 
President is exercising his constitutional authority to repel that invasion. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 8, 2025 
Mr. BIGGS of Arizona (for himself, Mr. ROY, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. 
OGLES, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. MOORE of Alabama, Mr. CRANE, 
Mr. TIFFANY, Mr. HARRIS of Maryland, Mr. BRECHEEN, Mr. GILL of 
Texas, Mrs. BIGGS of South Carolina, and Mr. CLOUD) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing that members and affiliates of Tren de Aragua 
are alien enemies perpetrating an invasion of the United 
States and affirming that the President is exercising 
his constitutional authority to repel that invasion. 
Whereas article II of the United States Constitution vests 
Executive power to the President of the United States, 
and establishes the President as Commander in Chief of 
the Armed Forces; 
Whereas the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was enacted by Con-
gress and signed into law to give the President of the 
United States the authority to repel an alien invasion of 
the United States; 
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Whereas invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is an 
exercise of the President’s authorities as Commander in 
Chief; 
Whereas the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 states: ‘‘Whenever 
there shall be a declared war between the United States 
and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or 
predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or 
threatened against the territory of the United States, by 
any foreign nation or government, and the President of 
the United States shall make public proclamation of the 
event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the 
hostile nation or government, being males of the age of 
fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the 
United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be lia-
ble to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, 
as alien enemies’’; 
Whereas, at the time the Alien Enemies Act was enacted, the 
term ‘‘invasion’’ was understood to include actions by 
non-state actors, as confirmed by James Madison’s com-
ments at the Virginia Ratifying Convention for the 
United States Constitution and definitions in Webster’s 
1806 and 1828 dictionaries, and the term ‘‘government’’ 
was understood to include the institutions for governing 
non-state organizations, the Alien Enemies Act can be in-
voked in response to invasions by non-state actors; 
Whereas, on 20 January 2025, President Donald J. Trump 
issued ‘‘Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As 
Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Des-
ignated Global Terrorists,’’ designating Tren De Aragua 
as a foreign terrorist organization; 
Whereas the Executive order further details Tren De 
Aragua’s ‘‘campaigns of violence and terror in the United 
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States and internationally are extraordinarily violent, vi-
cious, and similarly threaten the stability of the inter-
national order in the Western Hemisphere;’’ 
Whereas 20-year-old nursing student Laken Hope Riley’s as-
sailant, who was convicted of murdering and attempting 
to sexually assault her, was a confirmed Tren de Aragua 
member; 
Whereas the 2 Venezuelan illegal aliens charged with mur-
dering and sexually assaulting 12-year-old Jocelyn 
Nungaray on June 16, 2024, are believed to have ties to 
Tren de Aragua; 
Whereas law enforcement has confirmed Tren de Aragua tak-
ing over apartment complexes at gunpoint across the 
United States, including Aurora, Colorado and San Anto-
nio, Texas; 
Whereas, in March 2024, more than 100 suspected Tren de 
Aragua members were arrested for their involvement in 
charging at National Guardsmen and Department of 
Public Safety troopers at the El Paso border; 
Whereas, in June 2024, a Tren de Aragua member was 
charged with shooting and injuring New York City Police 
Department officers Cristopher Abreu and Richard 
Yarusso after they tried to lawfully detain him; 
Whereas, on July 30, 2024, United States Border Patrol 
issued a bulletin warning that Tren de Aragua gave the 
‘‘green light’’ to its over 1,000 members to fire on and 
attack law enforcement; 
Whereas, as of March 2025, Tren de Aragua is present in 
at least 19 States; 
Whereas, on March 15, 2025, President Donald J. Trump 
issued ‘‘Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding 
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the Invasion of The United States by Tren de Aragua’’, 
a proclamation that finds and declares that Tren de 
Aragua is ‘‘perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an 
invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of 
the United States’’; 
Whereas the proclamation further details and declares that 
Tren de Aragua is ‘‘undertaking hostile actions and con-
ducting irregular warfare against the territory of the 
United States both directly and at the direction, clandes-
tine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela’’; 
Whereas, in the 118th Congress, more than 80 Members of 
Congress sponsored or cosponsored legislation stating 
that the mass illegal immigration brought on by the 
open-border policies of the Biden administration con-
stituted an invasion of the United States; and 
Whereas the removal of alien enemies engaged in an invasion 
of the United States is necessary for the safety of the 
American people, and is a proper exercise of the Execu-
tive power of the President of the United States: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes that Tren de Aragua is a ter-
rorist organization perpetrating an invasion of the 
United States directly and at the direction of a for-
eign government; 
(2) recognizes that members and affiliates of 
Tren de Aragua are alien enemies; and 
(3) recognizes and affirms that the President is 
exercising his Constitutional and legal authority to 
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repel an invasion of alien enemies by apprehending, 
restraining, securing, and removing members and af-
filiates of Tren de Aragua from the United States 
of America. 
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