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Ruben Gallego
Senator · D-AZ
Senator · D-AZ
The resolution raises public awareness and congressional scrutiny of diminished counterterrorism capacity, but it also highlights staffing reallocations and leadership changes that likely weaken operational prevention, increasing security risks and eroding confidence.
American public are explicitly warned that the domestic terrorism threat has increased after U.S. operations in Iran, informing them of heightened risk.
Law-enforcement and federal employees: identification of reassignments and staffing cuts creates a basis for congressional oversight or funding efforts to restore counterterrorism and cybersecurity capacity.
American public and law-enforcement: thousands of diverted or laid-off agents and specialists have reduced federal counterterrorism and cybersecurity capacity, increasing vulnerability to attacks.
Urban communities and homeowners: reassigning agents to civil immigration enforcement reduces availability of investigators to prevent terrorism, potentially raising local risk to people and critical infrastructure.
Local governments and communities: firing and demoting experienced staff and installing inexperienced leadership in prevention programs may weaken community-based prevention and intelligence-sharing.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Finds that U.S. strikes and post-strike staffing and leadership changes diverted and cut key homeland security and law enforcement personnel, increasing terrorism risk.
Official title: Expressing the sense of the Senate that the law enforcement agents and other personnel of the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, who have been temporarily engaging in civil immigration enforcement operations, should be returned to their primary missions during periods of active hostility with Iran.
Introduced March 11, 2026 by Ruben Gallego · Last progress March 11, 2026
Declares that recent U.S. military action against Iranian facilities and the start of hostilities with Iran, together with post-strike changes in federal staffing and enforcement priorities, have increased the risk of retaliatory terrorist attacks. States that thousands of federal law enforcement and homeland security personnel were diverted to civil immigration enforcement, and that leadership and staff reductions at FBI counterintelligence, FBI Cyber, CISA, and DHS prevention programs have weakened preparedness. Frames these personnel and management changes as raising terrorism risk by reducing investigative capacity, analytic support, and prevention partnerships, citing a Department of Homeland Security National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin and the initiation of hostilities on February 28, 2026.