Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act

Summary

Creates new federal crimes that punish knowingly transmitting the location, movements, or activities of law enforcement to help certain cross‑border crimes and punishes damaging or defeating U.S. border‑control physical or electronic devices. It also treats attempts and conspiracies the same as completed offenses and revises federal firearms and related cross‑references to incorporate alien‑smuggling and other definitions.

• Creates a federal offense for knowingly transmitting law‑enforcement location/movement to aid certain border‑related crimes, with up to 10 years imprisonment.
• Creates a federal offense for destroying or impairing border‑control devices or building structures to defeat them, with up to 10 years imprisonment, or 20 years if a firearm is used.
• Treats attempts and conspiracies to commit these offenses as punishable the same as completed offenses.
• Adds the new offense into the Immigration and Nationality Act and updates its table of contents.
• Revises 18 U.S.C. §924(c) to redefine terms and to include "alien smuggling crime" under firearm‑related sentencing provisions.
• Makes conforming cross‑reference amendments across multiple titles to reflect §924(c) renumbering.
• Amends the statute of limitations statute (18 U.S.C. §3298) by inserting additional text at two points.
• Does not authorize new spending or create new administrative programs or deadlines in the text provided.
• Raises potential First Amendment and prosecutorial discretion issues by criminalizing transmission of location information to facilitate crimes.