Title: Transnational Criminal Organization Exploitation Threat Assessment Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Transnational Criminal Organization Exploitation Threat Assessment Act
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, to conduct a threat assessment of the exploitation by transnational criminal organizations of the unaccompanied alien children services program.
Upon completion of the assessment: (1) DHS shall direct component agencies, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to address identified security vulnerabilities; and (2) the Under Secretary shall disseminate such assessment to federal, state, and local partners.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2459 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2459

     To require a threat assessment regarding the exploitation by 
    transnational criminal organizations of the unaccompanied alien 
   children services program within the United States, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 2017

   Mr. King of New York (for himself and Mr. McCaul) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require a threat assessment regarding the exploitation by 
    transnational criminal organizations of the unaccompanied alien 
   children services program within the United States, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transnational Criminal Organization 
Exploitation Threat Assessment Act''.

SEC. 2. THREAT ASSESSMENT.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting 
through the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis of the 
Department of Homeland Security, shall conduct a threat assessment of 
the exploitation by transnational criminal organizations of the 
unaccompanied alien children services program.
    (b) Consultation.--In preparing the threat assessment required 
under subsection (a), the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis 
of the Department of Homeland Security shall consult with the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director of National Intelligence, 
and the heads of other Federal departments and agencies, as 
appropriate, to ensure that such threat assessment is informed by 
current information about homeland security threats posed by 
transnational criminal organizations.
    (c) Recommendations.--Upon completion of the threat assessment 
required under subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall 
make a determination if any changes are required to address security 
vulnerabilities identified in such assessment that are exploited by 
transnational criminal organizations in the unaccompanied alien 
children services program. If changes to the unaccompanied alien 
children services program are required, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall direct the Department of Homeland Security component 
agencies, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to address such vulnerabilities, 
as appropriate.
    (d) Distribution.--Upon completion of the threat assessment 
required under subsection (a), the Under Secretary for Intelligence and 
Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security shall disseminate such 
threat assessment to Federal partners, including the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director of National Intelligence, 
and State and local partners, including State, local, and regional 
fusion centers.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Transnational criminal organization.--The term 
        ``transnational criminal organization'' means a group of 
        persons that includes one or more foreign persons that engages 
        in an ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity involving 
        the jurisdictions of at least two foreign countries and that 
        threatens the national security, foreign policy, or economy of 
        the United States.
            (2) Unaccompanied alien children services program.--The 
        term ``unaccompanied alien children service program'' means the 
        program described in section 462 of the Homeland Security Act 
        of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279).
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