H.R. 1079 — CARTEL Act of 2025

This section provides the short title of the Act as the “Cartel And Radical Terrorist Enforcement Log Act of 2025” or the “CARTEL Act of 2025.”

This section directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to publish monthly operational statistics on a publicly available Department of Homeland Security website by the 7th day of each month, beginning with the second full month after enactment. The required publication must cover data from the immediately preceding month, including total and unique alien encounters and nationalities, gang-affiliated apprehensions and nationalities, drug seizures, encounters involving individuals in the terrorist screening database, arrests of criminal aliens or wanted individuals, known got aways, encounters with deceased aliens, and encounters and apprehensions affiliated with transnational criminal organizations. It also requires disclosure of four additional categories: (1) the number of terrorist screening database individuals who repeatedly attempted to cross unlawfully into the United States, (2) the number of such individuals apprehended and whether they were released into the United States or removed, (3) the number of individuals affiliated with transnational criminal organizations who repeatedly attempted to cross unlawfully into the United States, and (4) the number of such individuals apprehended and whether they were released into the United States or removed.

This section directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit, not later than 90 days after enactment and annually thereafter, an assessment to the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations attempting to move members or affiliates into the United States through the southern, northern, or maritime border. As background, section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) authorizes the Secretary of State to designate foreign terrorist organizations, which can trigger immigration and criminal-law consequences.