118th Congress International Affairs
H.R. 2633: Terrorist Organization Classification Act of 2023
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Summary
This bill directs the Department of State to designate five specified drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. (Among other things, such a designation allows the Department of the Treasury to require financial institutions to block transactions involving the organization.)
The five specified cartels in the bill are MS-13, Queen Nation, Sinaloa, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, and Beltran Leyva Organization.
The bill also requires the State Department to submit a detailed report on those five cartels and any other cartels it may identify. Based on this report, the State Department must designate as a foreign terrorist organization any such identified cartel (or faction thereof) that meets certain criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization.
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The bill specifies that it may not be construed to expand eligibility for asylum.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
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History
- Introduced in the House by George Santos.
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- Introduced in House
- Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.