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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. RES. 303
Recognizing that members and affiliates of Tren de Aragua are alien enemies
perpetrating an invasion of the United States and affirming that the
President is exercising his constitutional authority to repel that invasion.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL8, 2025
Mr. B
IGGSof Arizona (for himself, Mr. ROY, Mr. HIGGINSof Louisiana, Mr.
O
GLES, Mrs. MILLERof Illinois, Mr. MOOREof Alabama, Mr. CRANE,
Mr. T
IFFANY, Mr. HARRISof Maryland, Mr. BRECHEEN, Mr. GILLof
Texas, Mrs. B
IGGSof South Carolina, and Mr. CLOUD) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
RESOLUTION
Recognizing that members and affiliates of Tren de Aragua
are alien enemies perpetrating an invasion of the United
States and affirming that the President is exercising
his constitutional authority to repel that invasion.
Whereas article II of the United States Constitution vests
Executive power to the President of the United States,
and establishes the President as Commander in Chief of
the Armed Forces;
Whereas the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was enacted by Con-
gress and signed into law to give the President of the
United States the authority to repel an alien invasion of
the United States;
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Whereas invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is an
exercise of the President’s authorities as Commander in
Chief;
Whereas the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 states: ‘‘Whenever
there shall be a declared war between the United States
and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or
predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or
threatened against the territory of the United States, by
any foreign nation or government, and the President of
the United States shall make public proclamation of the
event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the
hostile nation or government, being males of the age of
fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the
United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be lia-
ble to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed,
as alien enemies’’;
Whereas, at the time the Alien Enemies Act was enacted, the
term ‘‘invasion’’ was understood to include actions by
non-state actors, as confirmed by James Madison’s com-
ments at the Virginia Ratifying Convention for the
United States Constitution and definitions in Webster’s
1806 and 1828 dictionaries, and the term ‘‘government’’
was understood to include the institutions for governing
non-state organizations, the Alien Enemies Act can be in-
voked in response to invasions by non-state actors;
Whereas, on 20 January 2025, President Donald J. Trump
issued ‘‘Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As
Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Des-
ignated Global Terrorists,’’ designating Tren De Aragua
as a foreign terrorist organization;
Whereas the Executive order further details Tren De
Aragua’s ‘‘campaigns of violence and terror in the United
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States and internationally are extraordinarily violent, vi-
cious, and similarly threaten the stability of the inter-
national order in the Western Hemisphere;’’
Whereas 20-year-old nursing student Laken Hope Riley’s as-
sailant, who was convicted of murdering and attempting
to sexually assault her, was a confirmed Tren de Aragua
member;
Whereas the 2 Venezuelan illegal aliens charged with mur-
dering and sexually assaulting 12-year-old Jocelyn
Nungaray on June 16, 2024, are believed to have ties to
Tren de Aragua;
Whereas law enforcement has confirmed Tren de Aragua tak-
ing over apartment complexes at gunpoint across the
United States, including Aurora, Colorado and San Anto-
nio, Texas;
Whereas, in March 2024, more than 100 suspected Tren de
Aragua members were arrested for their involvement in
charging at National Guardsmen and Department of
Public Safety troopers at the El Paso border;
Whereas, in June 2024, a Tren de Aragua member was
charged with shooting and injuring New York City Police
Department officers Cristopher Abreu and Richard
Yarusso after they tried to lawfully detain him;
Whereas, on July 30, 2024, United States Border Patrol
issued a bulletin warning that Tren de Aragua gave the
‘‘green light’’ to its over 1,000 members to fire on and
attack law enforcement;
Whereas, as of March 2025, Tren de Aragua is present in
at least 19 States;
Whereas, on March 15, 2025, President Donald J. Trump
issued ‘‘Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding
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the Invasion of The United States by Tren de Aragua’’,
a proclamation that finds and declares that Tren de
Aragua is ‘‘perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an
invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of
the United States’’;
Whereas the proclamation further details and declares that
Tren de Aragua is ‘‘undertaking hostile actions and con-
ducting irregular warfare against the territory of the
United States both directly and at the direction, clandes-
tine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela’’;
Whereas, in the 118th Congress, more than 80 Members of
Congress sponsored or cosponsored legislation stating
that the mass illegal immigration brought on by the
open-border policies of the Biden administration con-
stituted an invasion of the United States; and
Whereas the removal of alien enemies engaged in an invasion
of the United States is necessary for the safety of the
American people, and is a proper exercise of the Execu-
tive power of the President of the United States: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1
(1) recognizes that Tren de Aragua is a ter-2
rorist organization perpetrating an invasion of the 3
United States directly and at the direction of a for-4
eign government; 5
(2) recognizes that members and affiliates of 6
Tren de Aragua are alien enemies; and 7
(3) recognizes and affirms that the President is 8
exercising his Constitutional and legal authority to 9
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repel an invasion of alien enemies by apprehending, 1
restraining, securing, and removing members and af-2
filiates of Tren de Aragua from the United States 3
of America. 4
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