YourVoice.Now Summary
Criminal Justice & Due ProcessTransparency & AccountabilityOrders a new federal plan to fight Caribbean drug smuggling — with a required section on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Criminal Justice & Due Process
The plan would have to include ways to cut drug-related violent crime on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It sets what the plan must cover; it does not send money or add police.
The law's list of drug supply-cutting work would grow to include tracking and breaking up the finances of drug rings and money launderers, here and abroad. No new police powers come with it.
Transparency & Accountability
The Office of National Drug Control Policy writes the national drug plan. It would have to add a Caribbean chapter. That chapter would name each agency's job, the cost, and the smuggling routes to cover.
The plan would have to say what more police need to fight drug crime on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. That includes where federal money, training, and radios that work across agencies fall short.
More about this bill
Most people would notice no change in daily life. The White House drug policy office would have to write a new plan. It would cover drug smuggling through the Caribbean into the United States, by sea, by air, and through ports. The plan would name what each federal agency would do and what money and staff it needs. It would also have to avoid slowing down legal trade and travel. Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands would get their own section of the plan. It would include steps to cut drug-related violent crime on both islands. It would also list what more local and federal police need, such as radios and systems that work together. Going after the money behind drug rings would become part of the national drug strategy. No new funding, staff, or police powers come with any of this.
Congressional Summary
Caribbean Border Counternarcotics Strategy Act This bill provides statutory authority for the requirement for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to include a Caribbean Border Counternarcotics Strategy in its National Drug Control Strategy. This strategy must include measures for preventing the illegal trafficking of drugs through the Caribbean region into the United States, including measures to combat drug trafficking and drug-related violent crime in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The bill also revises ONDCP's authorization to (1) add definitions for state and for United States to specify that its authorization includes U.S. territories and possessions, and (2) revise the definition for supply reduction to ensure that the National Drug Control Strategy includes efforts to disrupt the financial networks of drug trafficking organizations.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Action Date
- Date Added
- 2026-04-02
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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