; and (B) foreign persons who provide material, financial, or technological support to such traffickers, organizations, and networks. (2) Targets The activities described in paragraph (1) shall specifically target foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations and networks, and the foreign persons who provide material, financial, or technological support to such traffickers, organizations, and networks that are present and operating in Central America. (c) Authorization of appropriations There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out subsection (b). 223. Support for FBI transnational anti-gang task forces for countering criminal gangs (a) Findings Congress finds that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Transnational Anti-Gang Task Forces established in 2007 in El Salvador, through cooperation between the FBI and the Department of State, to combat criminal gangs, including the MS–13 and 18th Street gangs, should be expanded. (b) Task force expansion The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in coordination with the Secretary of State, shall expand the efforts of the Transnational Anti-Gang Task Forces in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, including by— (1) expanding transnational criminal investigations focused on criminal gangs in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, such as MS–13 and 18th Street; (2) expanding training and partnership efforts with Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Honduran law enforcement entities in order to disrupt and dismantle criminal gangs, both internationally and in their respective countries; (3) establishing or expanding special vetted investigative units