I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1915 
To improve the collection of intelligence regarding activities by drug 
trafficking organizations in certain foreign countries. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 6, 2025 
Mr. DAVIDSON (for himself, Mr. CLINE, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. 
LAMALFA, Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, and Mr. MOORE of Alabama) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent 
Select), Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, Oversight and Government 
Reform, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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 improve the collection of intelligence regarding activities 
by drug trafficking organizations in certain foreign countries. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Stop the Cartels Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
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Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—PRIORITIZING INTELLIGENCE GATHERING ON DRUG 
TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS 
Sec. 101. Assessment of activities by drug trafficking organizations in covered 
foreign countries. 
Sec. 102. Assessment of human trafficking and smuggling from covered foreign 
countries to the United States-Mexico border. 
Sec. 103. Prioritization of intelligence resources for covered foreign countries. 
Sec. 104. Resolving intelligence sharing and cooperation agreements. 
Sec. 105. Review of Mexico and United States bilateral cooperation. 
Sec. 106. Designation of certain drug cartels as Special Transnational Criminal 
Organization. 
Sec. 107. Monthly Department of Homeland Security reports on migrants. 
Sec. 108. Definitions. 
TITLE II—ELIMINATING FUNDING FOR CARTEL SAFE HARBOR 
JURISDICTIONS 
Sec. 201. Ineligibility for Federal grants of certain jurisdictions that violate the 
immigration laws. 
TITLE III—TARGETING CARTEL HUMAN TRAFFICKING AT THE 
BORDER 
Sec. 301. Ending family separation and protection of minors. 
Sec. 302. Stopping asylum fraud. 
Sec. 303. Hiring authority. 
Sec. 304. Refugee application and processing centers. 
TITLE IV—REPURPOSING FEDERAL DRUG PROGRAMS 
Sec. 401. Reauthorization of block grants for prevention and treatment of sub-
stance abuse. 
Sec. 402. Offsetting repeals. 
TITLE I—PRIORITIZING INTEL-
LIGENCE 
GATHERING 
ON 
DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANI-
ZATIONS 
SEC. 101. ASSESSMENT OF ACTIVITIES BY DRUG TRAF-
FICKING ORGANIZATIONS IN COVERED FOR-
EIGN COUNTRIES. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National In-
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telligence, in coordination with the Chief of Intelligence 
of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Assist-
ant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a re-
port containing an analytical assessment of the activities 
of drug trafficking organizations in covered foreign coun-
tries. Such assessment shall include, at a minimum— 
(1) an assessment of the effect of drug traf-
ficking organizations on the security and economic 
situation in covered foreign countries; 
(2) an assessment of the effect of the activities 
of drug trafficking organizations on the migration of 
persons from covered foreign countries to the United 
States-Mexico border; 
(3) a summary of any relevant activities by ele-
ments of the intelligence community in relation to 
drug trafficking organizations in covered foreign 
countries and Mexico; 
(4) a summary of key methods and routes used 
by drug trafficking organizations in covered foreign 
countries and Mexico to the United States; 
(5) an assessment of the intersection between 
the activities of drug trafficking organizations, 
human traffickers and human smugglers, and other 
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organized criminal groups in covered foreign coun-
tries; and 
(6) an assessment of the illicit funds and finan-
cial transactions that support the activities of drug 
trafficking organizations and connected criminal en-
terprises in covered foreign countries. 
(b) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
may be submitted in classified form, but if so submitted, 
shall contain an unclassified summary. 
(c) AVAILABILITY.—The report under subsection (a), 
or the unclassified summary of the report described in 
subsection (b), shall be made publicly available. 
SEC. 102. ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND 
SMUGGLING 
FROM 
COVERED 
FOREIGN 
COUNTRIES TO THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO 
BORDER. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 
of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Under 
Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Anal-
ysis and the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence 
and Research, shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report containing an analytical assess-
ment of human trafficking and human smuggling by indi-
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viduals and organizations in covered foreign countries. 
Such assessment shall include, at a minimum— 
(1) an assessment of the effect of human traf-
ficking and human smuggling on the security and 
economic situation in covered foreign countries; 
(2) a summary of any relevant activities by ele-
ments of the intelligence community in relation to 
human trafficking and human smuggling in covered 
foreign countries; 
(3) an assessment of the methods and routes 
used by human traffickers and human smuggler or-
ganizations to move persons from covered foreign 
countries to the United States-Mexico border; 
(4) an assessment of the intersection between 
the activities of human traffickers and human smug-
glers, drug trafficking organizations, and other orga-
nized criminal groups in covered foreign countries; 
and 
(5) an assessment of the illicit funds and finan-
cial transactions that support the activities of 
human traffickers and human smugglers and con-
nected criminal enterprises in covered foreign coun-
tries. 
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(b) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
may be submitted in classified form, but if so submitted, 
shall contain an unclassified summary. 
(c) AVAILABILITY.—The report under subsection (a), 
or the unclassified summary of the report described in 
subsection (b), shall be made publicly available. 
SEC. 103. PRIORITIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE RESOURCES 
FOR COVERED FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
(a) REVIEW
OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY EF-
FORTS IN COVERED FOREIGN COUNTRIES.—The Director 
of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Under 
Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Anal-
ysis, the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and 
Research, the Chief of Intelligence of the Drug Enforce-
ment Administration, and other appropriate officials in 
the intelligence community, shall carry out a comprehen-
sive review of the current intelligence collection priorities 
of the intelligence community for covered foreign countries 
in order to identify whether such priorities are appropriate 
and sufficient in light of the threat posed by the activities 
of drug trafficking organizations and human traffickers 
and human smugglers to the security of the United States 
and the Western Hemisphere. 
(b) REPORTS.— 
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(1) REPORT
ON
INITIAL
REVIEW.—Not later 
than 120 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall 
submit to the congressional intelligence committees a 
comprehensive description of the results of the re-
view required by subsection (a), including whether 
the priorities described in that subsection are appro-
priate and sufficient in light of the threat posed by 
the activities of drug trafficking organizations and 
human traffickers and human smugglers to the secu-
rity of the United States and the Western Hemi-
sphere. If the report concludes that such priorities 
are not so appropriate and sufficient, the report 
shall also include a description of the actions to be 
taken to modify such priorities in order to assure 
that such priorities are so appropriate and sufficient. 
(2) QUARTERLY REPORTS.—Not later than 90 
days after the date on which the report under para-
graph (1) is submitted, and every 90 days thereafter 
for a 5-year period, the Director of National Intel-
ligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence 
committees a report on the intelligence community’s 
collection priorities and activities in covered foreign 
countries with a focus on the threat posed by the ac-
tivities of drug trafficking organizations and human 
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traffickers and human smugglers to the security of 
the United States and the Western Hemisphere. The 
first report under this paragraph shall also include 
a description of the amount of funds expended by 
the intelligence community to the efforts described 
in subsection (a) during each of fiscal years 2023 
and 2024. 
(c) FORM.—The reports required by subsection (b) 
may be submitted in classified form, but if so submitted, 
shall contain an unclassified summary. 
SEC. 104. RESOLVING INTELLIGENCE SHARING AND CO-
OPERATION AGREEMENTS. 
None of the amounts appropriated to the Department 
of State to combat the threats of drug trafficking, 
transnational organized crime, and money laundering or 
appropriated to the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development may be made available to the Mexi-
can federal government or its subsidiaries until the Sec-
retary of State certifies to Congress that Mexico has re-
moved all barriers to bilateral cooperation created after 
December 2020 that have hindered law enforcement co-
operation and intelligence-sharing between United States 
and Mexican law enforcement agencies, including the im-
plementation of the Foreign Agents law and the limits 
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that have been placed on issuing visas to United States 
law enforcement personnel. 
SEC. 105. REVIEW OF MEXICO AND UNITED STATES BILAT-
ERAL COOPERATION. 
(a) PLAN TO REESTABLISH BILATERAL SECURITY 
MEETINGS.—Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consulta-
tion with the heads of other relevant Federal departments 
and agencies, shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a plan and timeline to reestablish reg-
ular bilateral security meetings between appropriate high- 
level and working-level officials of the Governments of the 
United States and Mexico that serve as a forum to align 
and reconcile priorities between the United States and 
Mexico and to periodically assess progress for bilateral co-
operation. The plan shall include possible areas of co-
operation at the Federal, State, and local levels with 
United States goals for assistance. 
(b) COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW.—Not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of State and the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development, in consultation 
with the heads of other relevant Federal departments and 
agencies, shall submit a report to appropriate congres-
sional committees that— 
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(1) provides a review of programs, projects, and 
activities implemented as part of either the Merida 
Initiative or The Bicentennial Framework; and 
(2) includes— 
(A) evaluations, assessments, or other 
analyses, as appropriate; 
(B) successes, challenges, and lessons 
learned in achieving program outcomes and 
United States policy goals; 
(C) recommendations to change investment 
levels in specific projects; and 
(D) to the extent practicable, an assess-
ment of the effect, if any, of Mexico’s Foreign 
Agents law on bilateral security cooperation 
with the Department of State, the United 
States Agency for International Development, 
and the Department of Justice. 
SEC. 106. DESIGNATION OF CERTAIN DRUG CARTELS AS 
SPECIAL TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGA-
NIZATION. 
(a) DESIGNATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized 
to designate an organization as a foreign Special 
Transnational Criminal Organization in accordance 
with this subsection if the Secretary finds that— 
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