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House lawmakers have reintroduced three bipartisan bills to strengthen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in countering the growing threat of repression from authoritarian regimes on U.S. soil.
“Transnational repression occurs when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Iranian regime, or other foreign actors extend their reach beyond their borders to silence Americans and dissidents through various tactics, such as harassment, assault, attempted kidnapping, intimidation, and coercion,” members of the House Committee on Homeland Security committee said in a March 14 press release.
One bill is the Countering Transnational Repression Act of 2025, which would set up an office in DHS dedicated to transnational repression to analyze and monitor transnational repression and related terrorism threats. The office would assess transnational repression incidents and the federal efforts to investigate and disrupt such acts in an annual report for seven years after the bill’s enactment into law. They’d also share information related to the issue to federal and local partners....
