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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 1735 (Engrossed in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 1269

Sec. 1269. Combating crime through intelligence capabilities

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The Secretary of Defense is authorized to deploy assets, personnel, and resources to United States Southern Command, in coordination with the Joint Interagency Task Force South, to combat the following by supplying sufficient intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities: Transnational criminal organizations. Drug trafficking. Bulk shipments of narcotics or currency. Narco-terrorism and terrorist financing. Human trafficking. The presence and influence of Iran, Russia, and China in the Western Hemisphere.
The national security threat posed by the presence and influence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Hezbollah, or any other foreign terrorist organization in the Western Hemisphere.
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