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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8613-8614]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02089]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 19 / Thursday, January 30, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14167 of January 20, 2025

                
Clarifying the Military's Role in Protecting the 
                Territorial Integrity of the United States

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered:

                Section 1. Purpose. (a) As Chief Executive and as 
                Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United 
                States, I have no more solemn responsibility than 
                protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of 
                the United States along our national borders. The 
                protection of a nation's territorial integrity and 
                national boundaries is paramount for its security.

                    (b) The Armed Forces of the United States have 
                played a long and well-established role in securing our 
                borders against threats of invasion, against unlawful 
                forays by foreign nationals into the United States, and 
                against other transnational criminal activities that 
                violate our laws and threaten the peace, harmony, and 
                tranquility of the Nation. These threats have taken a 
                variety of forms over our Nation's history, but the 
                Armed Forces have consistently played an integral role 
                in protecting the sovereignty of the United States.
                    (c) Threats against our Nation's sovereignty 
                continue today, and it is essential that the Armed 
                Forces staunchly continue to participate in the defense 
                of our territorial integrity and sovereignty. A 
                National Emergency currently exists along the southern 
                border of the United States. Unchecked unlawful mass 
                migration and the unimpeded flow of opiates across our 
                borders continue to endanger the safety and security of 
                the American people and encourage further lawlessness. 
                Accordingly, through this order, I am acting in 
                accordance with my solemn duty to protect and defend 
                the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the United 
                States along our national borders.

                Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States 
                to ensure that the Armed Forces of the United States 
                prioritize the protection of the sovereignty and 
                territorial integrity of the United States along our 
                national borders.

                Sec. 3. Implementation. The Secretary of Defense shall:

                    (a) No later than 10 days from the effective date 
                of this order, deliver to the President a revision to 
                the Unified Command Plan that assigns United States 
                Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) the mission to seal the 
                borders and maintain the sovereignty, territorial 
                integrity, and security of the United States by 
                repelling forms of invasion including unlawful mass 
                migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and 
                trafficking, and other criminal activities.
                    (b) On the effective date of this order, add the 
                following requirements to the Contingency Planning 
                Guidance and Guidance for the Employment of the Force:

(i) A Level 3 planning requirement for USNORTHCOM to seal the borders and 
maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United 
States by repelling forms of invasion, including unlawful mass migration, 
narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal 
activities, with a commander's estimate due to the Secretary of Defense 
within 30 days of the effective date of this order.

(ii) A campaign planning requirement for USNORTHCOM to provide steady-state 
southern border security, seal the border, and maintain the

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sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States by 
repelling forms of invasion, including unlawful mass migration, narcotics 
trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal 
activities.

(iii) Continuous assessments of all available options to protect the 
sovereign territory of the United States from mass unlawful entry and 
impingement on our national sovereignty and security by foreign nations and 
transnational criminal organizations.

                Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 20, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-02089
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