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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8467-8469]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02015]



                        Presidential Documents 



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

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                Executive Order 14165 of January 20, 2025

                
Securing Our Borders

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act 
                (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., and section 301 of title 
                3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:

                Section 1. Purpose. Over the last 4 years, the United 
                States has endured a large-scale invasion at an 
                unprecedented level. Millions of illegal aliens from 
                nations and regions all around the world successfully 
                entered the United States where they are now residing, 
                including potential terrorists, foreign spies, members 
                of cartels, gangs, and violent transnational criminal 
                organizations, and other hostile actors with malicious 
                intent.

                Deadly narcotics and other illicit materials have 
                flowed across the border while agents and officers 
                spend their limited resources processing illegal aliens 
                for release into the United States. These catch-and-
                release policies undermine the rule of law and our 
                sovereignty, create substantial risks to public safety 
                and security, and divert critical resources away from 
                stopping the entry of contraband and fugitives into the 
                United States.

                We have limited information on the precise whereabouts 
                of a great number of these illegal aliens who have 
                entered the United States over the last 4 years.

                This cannot stand. A nation without borders is not a 
                nation, and the Federal Government must act with 
                urgency and strength to end the threats posed by an 
                unsecured border.

                One of my most important obligations is to protect the 
                American people from the disastrous effects of unlawful 
                mass migration and resettlement.

                My Administration will marshal all available resources 
                and authorities to stop this unprecedented flood of 
                illegal aliens into the United States.

                Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States 
                to take all appropriate action to secure the borders of 
                our Nation through the following means:

                    (a) Establishing a physical wall and other barriers 
                monitored and supported by adequate personnel and 
                technology;
                    (b) Deterring and preventing the entry of illegal 
                aliens into the United States;
                    (c) Detaining, to the maximum extent authorized by 
                law, aliens apprehended on suspicion of violating 
                Federal or State law, until such time as they are 
                removed from the United States;
                    (d) Removing promptly all aliens who enter or 
                remain in violation of Federal law;
                    (e) Pursuing criminal charges against illegal 
                aliens who violate the immigration laws, and against 
                those who facilitate their unlawful presence in the 
                United States;
                    (f) Cooperating fully with State and local law 
                enforcement officials in enacting Federal-State 
                partnerships to enforce Federal immigration priorities; 
                and
                    (g) Obtaining complete operational control of the 
                borders of the United States.

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                Sec. 3. Physical Barriers. The Secretary of Defense and 
                the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all 
                appropriate action to deploy and construct temporary 
                and permanent physical barriers to ensure complete 
                operational control of the southern border of the 
                United States.

                Sec. 4. Deployment of Personnel. (a) The Secretary of 
                Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
                take all appropriate and lawful action to deploy 
                sufficient personnel along the southern border of the 
                United States to ensure complete operational control; 
                and

                    (b) The Attorney General and the Secretary of 
                Homeland Security shall take all appropriate action to 
                supplement available personnel to secure the southern 
                border and enforce the immigration laws of the United 
                States through the use of sections 1103(a)(2) and (4)-
                (6) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1103(a)(2) and (4)-(6)).

                Sec. 5. Detention. The Secretary of Homeland Security 
                shall take all appropriate actions to detain, to the 
                fullest extent permitted by law, aliens apprehended for 
                violations of immigration law until their successful 
                removal from the United States. The Secretary shall, 
                consistent with applicable law, issue new policy 
                guidance or propose regulations regarding the 
                appropriate and consistent use of lawful detention 
                authority under the INA, including the termination of 
                the practice commonly known as ``catch-and-release,'' 
                whereby illegal aliens are routinely released into the 
                United States shortly after their apprehension for 
                violations of immigration law.

                Sec. 6. Resumption of Migrant Protection Protocols. As 
                soon as practicable, the Secretary of Homeland 
                Security, in coordination with the Secretary of State 
                and the Attorney General, shall take all appropriate 
                action to resume the Migrant Protection Protocols in 
                all sectors along the southern border of the United 
                States and ensure that, pending removal proceedings, 
                aliens described in section 235(b)(2)(C) of the INA (8 
                U.S.C. 1225(b)(2)(C)) are returned to the territory 
                from which they came.

                Sec. 7. Adjusting Parole Policies. The Secretary of 
                Homeland Security shall, consistent with applicable 
                law, take all appropriate action to:

                    (a) Cease using the ``CBP One'' application as a 
                method of paroling or facilitating the entry of 
                otherwise inadmissible aliens into the United States;
                    (b) Terminate all categorical parole programs that 
                are contrary to the policies of the United States 
                established in my Executive Orders, including the 
                program known as the ``Processes for Cubans, Haitians, 
                Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.''
                    (c) Align all policies and operations at the 
                southern border of the United States to be consistent 
                with the policy of Section 2 of this order and ensure 
                that all future parole determinations fully comply with 
                this order and with applicable law.

                Sec. 8. Additional International Cooperation. The 
                Secretary of State, in coordination with the Attorney 
                General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall 
                take all appropriate action to facilitate additional 
                international cooperation and agreements, consistent 
                with the policy of Section 2, including entering into 
                agreements based upon the provisions of section 
                208(a)(2)(A) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1158(a)(2)(A)) or any 
                other applicable provision of law.

                Sec. 9. DNA and Identification Requirements. (a) The 
                Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security 
                shall take all appropriate action to fulfill the 
                requirements of the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005, title 
                X of Public Law 109-162, for all aliens detained under 
                the authority of the United States; and

                    (b) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall take 
                all appropriate action to use any available 
                technologies and procedures to determine the validity 
                of any claimed familial relationship between aliens 
                encountered or apprehended by the Department of 
                Homeland Security.

                Sec. 10. Prosecution of Offenses. The Attorney General 
                and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all 
                appropriate action to prioritize the

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                prosecution of offenses that relate to the borders of 
                the United States, including the investigation and 
                prosecution of offenses that involve human smuggling, 
                human trafficking, child trafficking, and sex 
                trafficking in the United States.

                Sec. 11. Additional Measures. Within 14 days of the 
                date of this order, the Secretary of State, the 
                Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human 
                Services, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
                provide recommendations to the President regarding the 
                use of any other authority to protect the United States 
                from foreign threats and secure the southern border.

                Sec. 12. 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. 2025-02015
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