I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2158 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize a dedicated 
transnational repression working group within the Department of Home-
land Security to analyze and monitor transnational repression and ter-
rorism threats related to transnational repression, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 14, 2025 
Mr. PFLUGER (for himself, Mr. MAGAZINER, Mr. EVANS of Colorado, Mr. 
OGLES, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. GUEST, and Ms. LEE of Florida) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Se-
curity, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize 
a dedicated transnational repression working group with-
in the Department of Homeland Security to analyze and 
monitor transnational repression and terrorism threats 
related to transnational repression, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Countering 
Transnational Repression Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) transnational repression and terrorism 
threats related to transnational repression by a for-
eign government or an agent of a foreign govern-
ment to target individuals in the United States and 
persons outside of the United States are real and 
growing; 
(2) agents acting on behalf of hostile foreign 
governments employ a range of transnational repres-
sion tactics, including making threats, intimidation, 
harassment, surveillance, stalking, silencing, and 
planning physical harm or the kidnapping of individ-
uals in the United States; and 
(3) the Department of Homeland Security must 
take steps to recognize, assess, and help address this 
threat, thereby reducing risks to the people of the 
United States. 
SEC. 3. WORKING GROUP TO COUNTER TRANSNATIONAL 
REPRESSION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle H of title VIII of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
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‘‘SEC. 
890E. 
WORKING 
GROUP 
TO 
COUNTER 
TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION. 
‘‘(a) WORKING GROUP.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a 
Working Group, to be known as the ‘Transnational 
Repression Working Group’ (in this section referred 
to as the ‘Working Group’), within the Department, 
which shall be responsible for, in coordination with 
the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, analyzing 
and monitoring transnational repression and ter-
rorism threats related to transnational repression. 
‘‘(2) DIRECTOR.— 
‘‘(A) APPOINTMENT
OF
DIRECTOR.—The 
head of the Working Group shall be a Director 
of the Transnational Repression Working 
Group, who shall be appointed by the Director 
of Homeland Security Investigations. 
‘‘(B) REPORTING.—The Director of the 
Transnational Repression Working Group shall 
report to the Secretary and the Director of 
Homeland Security Investigations regarding all 
administrative, operational, and security mat-
ters of the Working Group. 
‘‘(3) STAFFING.—The Director of Homeland 
Security Investigations shall ensure the Working 
Group— 
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‘‘(A) has a sufficient number of employees 
to perform required duties; and 
‘‘(B) has at least one employee dedicated 
to ensuring compliance with privacy laws and 
regulations. 
‘‘(4) DETAILEES AUTHORIZED.—The Working 
Group may accept and employ detailees with exper-
tise in countering transnational repression and ter-
rorism threats related to transnational repression or 
related fields from any element of the intelligence 
community, or any other Federal agency the Direc-
tor of the Transnational Repression Working Group 
determines appropriate, with or without reimburse-
ment, consistent with applicable laws and regula-
tions regarding such employees. 
‘‘(5) INFORMATION
SHARING.—The Working 
Group, in coordination with the Office of Intelligence 
and Analysis, shall review information relating to 
transnational repression and terrorism threats re-
lated to transnational repression that is gathered by 
Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial partners, 
and the National Network of Fusion Centers, and 
incorporate such information, as appropriate, into 
the Working Group’s own information relating to 
transnational repression and terrorism threats re-
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lated to transnational repression. The Working 
Group shall ensure the dissemination to Federal, 
State, local, Tribal, and territorial partners, and the 
National Network of Fusion Centers, of information 
related to transnational repression and terrorism 
threats related to transnational repression. 
‘‘(6) HOMELAND
SECURITY
ASSESSMENT
ON 
TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION.— 
‘‘(A) ANNUAL
ASSESSMENTS.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this section and annually thereafter for seven 
years, the Director of Homeland Security Inves-
tigations, acting through the Director of the 
Transnational Repression Working Group, in 
coordination with the Office of Intelligence and 
Analysis and the Office of the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence and the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, as appropriate, shall submit to 
the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs of the Senate a report that assesses inci-
dents of transnational repression and terrorism 
threats related to transnational repression dur-
ing the immediately preceding 12 months. 
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‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—Each assessment sub-
mitted under subparagraph (A) shall also in-
clude the following: 
‘‘(i) An analysis of attempted inci-
dents of transnational repression and ter-
rorism threats related to transnational re-
pression. 
‘‘(ii) 
A 
quantitative 
analysis 
of 
transnational repression and terrorism 
threats related to transnational repression, 
including the number of individuals re-
sponsible for or associated with such 
transnational 
repression 
or 
terrorism 
threats related to transnational repression, 
and an identification of the country of citi-
zenship or nationality of each such indi-
vidual, and the roles of the foreign govern-
ments of such countries in enabling, pre-
venting, mitigating, and responding to 
transnational repression and terrorism 
threats related to transnational repression. 
‘‘(iii) Subject to appropriate protec-
tions for sensitive information regarding 
law enforcement investigations and oper-
ations, a description of efforts by the Fed-
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eral Government to disrupt through inves-
tigation transnational repression and ter-
rorism threats related to transnational re-
pression. 
‘‘(iv) Any other matters the Director 
of Homeland Security Investigations deter-
mines relevant. 
‘‘(C) FORM.—Each assessment under sub-
paragraph (A) shall be submitted in unclassi-
fied form, but may include a classified annex 
only for the protection of intelligence sources 
and methods relating to the matters contained 
in such assessment. The Director of Homeland 
Security Investigations shall post on a publicly 
available website of the Department the unclas-
sified portion of each such assessment. 
‘‘(7) SUNSET.—The Working Group shall ter-
minate on the date that is seven years after the date 
of the enactment of this section. 
‘‘(b) RESEARCH.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary, in 
coordination with the Under Secretary for Science and 
Technology of the Department, the Director of the 
Transnational Repression Office, and the Director of 
Homeland Security Investigations, shall, to the extent 
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