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Executive Order 14159 of January 20, 2025 

Protecting the American People Against Invasion 

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 prior administration invited, 

administered, and oversaw an unprecedented flood of illegal immigration 

into the United States. Millions of illegal aliens crossed our borders or 

were permitted to fly directly into the United States on commercial flights 

and allowed to settle in American communities, in violation of longstanding 

Federal laws. 

Many of these aliens unlawfully within the United States present significant 

threats to national security and public safety, committing vile and heinous 

acts against innocent Americans. Others are engaged in hostile activities, 

including espionage, economic espionage, and preparations for terror-related 

activities. Many have abused the generosity of the American people, and 

their presence in the United States has cost taxpayers billions of dollars 

at the Federal, State, and local levels. 

Enforcing our Nation’s immigration laws is critically important to the national 

security and public safety of the United States. The American people deserve 

a Federal Government that puts their interests first and a Government that 

understands its sacred obligation to prioritize the safety, security, and financial and economic well-being of Americans. 

This order ensures that the Federal Government protects the American people 

by faithfully executing the immigration laws of the United States. 

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to faithfully execute 

the immigration laws against all inadmissible and removable aliens, particularly those aliens who threaten the safety or security of the American people. 

Further, it is the policy of the United States to achieve the total and efficient 

enforcement of those laws, including through lawful incentives and detention 

capabilities. 

Sec. 3. Faithful Execution of the Immigration Laws. In furtherance of the 

policies described in section 2 of this order: 

(a) Executive Order 13993 of January 20, 2021 (Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities), Executive Order 14010 of February 

2, 2021 (Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework To Address the 

Causes of Migration, To Manage Migration Throughout North and Central 

America, and To Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers 

at the United States Border), Executive Order 14011 of February 2, 2021 

(Establishment of Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families), 

and Executive Order 14012 of February 2, 2021 (Restoring Faith in Our 

Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans) are hereby revoked; and 

(b) Executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall take all appropriate 

action to promptly revoke all memoranda, guidance, or other policies based 

on the Executive Orders revoked in section 3(a) of this order and shall 

employ all lawful means to ensure the faithful execution of the immigration 

laws of the United States against all inadmissible and removable aliens. 


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Sec. 4. Civil Enforcement Priorities. The Secretary of Homeland Security 

shall take all appropriate action to enable the Director of U.S. Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, and the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 

to set priorities for their agencies that protect the public safety and national 

security interests of the American people, including by ensuring the successful enforcement of final orders of removal. Further, the Secretary of Homeland 

Security shall ensure that the primary mission of U.S. Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations division is the 

enforcement of the provisions of the INA and other Federal laws related 

to the illegal entry and unlawful presence of aliens in the United States 

and the enforcement of the purposes of this order. 

Sec. 5. Criminal Enforcement Priorities. The Attorney General, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security, 

shall take all appropriate action to prioritize the prosecution of criminal 

offenses related to the unauthorized entry or continued unauthorized presence of aliens in the United States. 

Sec. 6. Federal Homeland Security Task Forces. (a) The Attorney General 

and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all appropriate action 

to jointly establish Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTFs) in all States 

nationwide. 

(b) The composition of each HSTF shall be subject to the direction of 

the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, but shall 

include representation from any other Federal agencies with law enforcement 

officers, or agencies with the ability to provide logistics, intelligence, and 

operational support to the HSTFs, and shall also include representation 

from relevant State and local law enforcement agencies. The heads of all 

Federal agencies shall take all appropriate action to provide support to 

the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure 

that the HSTFs fulfill the objectives in subsection (c) of this section, and 

any other lawful purpose that fulfills the policy objectives of this order. 

(c) The objective of each HSTF is to end the presence of criminal cartels, 

foreign gangs, and transnational criminal organizations throughout the United 

States, dismantle cross-border human smuggling and trafficking networks, 

end the scourge of human smuggling and trafficking, with a particular focus 

on such offenses involving children, and ensure the use of all available 

law enforcement tools to faithfully execute the immigration laws of the 

United States. 

(d) The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 

take all appropriate action to provide an operational command center to 

coordinate the activities of the HSTFs and provide such support as they 

may require, and shall also take all appropriate action to provide supervisory 

direction to their activities as may be required. 

Sec. 7. Identification of Unregistered Illegal Aliens. The Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Attorney 

General, shall take all appropriate action to: 

(a) Immediately announce and publicize information about the legal obligation of all previously unregistered aliens in the United States to comply 

with the requirements of part VII of subchapter II of chapter 12 of title 

8, United States Code; 

(b) Ensure that all previously unregistered aliens in the United States 

comply with the requirements of part VII of subchapter II of chapter 12 

of title 8, United States Code; and 

(c) Ensure that failure to comply with the legal obligations of part VII 

of subchapter II of chapter 12 of title 8, United States Code, is treated 

as a civil and criminal enforcement priority. 

Sec. 8. Civil Fines and Penalties. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, 

in coordination with the Secretary of Treasury, shall take all appropriate 

action to ensure the assessment and collection of all fines and penalties 


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that the Secretary of Homeland Security is authorized by law to assess 

and collect from aliens unlawfully present in the United States, including 

aliens who unlawfully entered or unlawfully attempted to enter the United 

States, and from those who facilitate such aliens’ presence in the United 

States. 

(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Treasury 

and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a report to the President 

regarding their progress implementing the requirements of this section and 

recommending any additional actions that may need to be taken to achieve 

its objectives. 

Sec. 9. Efficient Removals of Recent Entrants and Other Aliens. The Secretary 

of Homeland Security shall take all appropriate action, pursuant to section 

235(b)(1)(A)(iii)(I) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1)(A)(iii)(I)), to apply, in 

her sole and unreviewable discretion, the provisions of section 235(b)(1)(A)(i) 

and (ii) of the INA to the aliens designated under section 235(b)(1)(A)(iii)(II). 

Further, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall promptly take appropriate 

action to use all other provisions of the immigration laws or any other 

Federal law, including, but not limited to sections 238 and 240(d) of the 

INA (8 U.S.C. 1228 and 1229a(d)), to ensure the efficient and expedited 

removal of aliens from the United States. 

Sec. 10. Detention Facilities. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 

promptly take all appropriate action and allocate all legally available resources or establish contracts to construct, operate, control, or use facilities 

to detain removable aliens. The Secretary of Homeland Security, further, 

shall take all appropriate actions to ensure the detention of aliens apprehended for violations of immigration law pending the outcome of their 

removal proceedings or their removal from the country, to the extent permitted by law. 

Sec. 11. Federal-State Agreements. To ensure State and local law enforcement 

agencies across the United States can assist with the protection of the 

American people, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, to the maximum 

extent permitted by law, and with the consent of State or local officials 

as appropriate, take appropriate action, through agreements under section 

287(g) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)) or otherwise, to authorize State and 

local law enforcement officials, as the Secretary of Homeland Security determines are qualified and appropriate, to perform the functions of immigration 

officers in relation to the investigation, apprehension, or detention of aliens 

in the United States under the direction and the supervision of the Secretary 

of Homeland Security. Such authorization shall be in addition to, rather 

than in place of, Federal performance of these duties. To the extent permitted 

by law, the Secretary of Homeland Security may structure each agreement 

under section 287(g) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)) in the manner that 

provides the most effective model for enforcing Federal immigration laws 

in that jurisdiction. 

Sec. 12. Encouraging Voluntary Compliance with the Law. The Secretary 

of Homeland Security shall take all appropriate action, in coordination with 

the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, and subject to adequate 

safeguards, assurances, bonds, and any other lawful measure, to adopt policies and procedures to encourage aliens unlawfully in the United States 

to voluntarily depart as soon as possible, including through enhanced usage 

of the provisions of section 240B of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1229c), international 

agreements or assistance, or any other measures that encourage aliens unlawfully in the United States to depart as promptly as possible, including 

through removals of aliens as provided by section 250 of the INA (8 U.S.C. 

1260). 

Sec. 13. Recalcitrant Countries. The Secretary of State and the Secretary 

of Homeland Security shall take all appropriate action to: 

(a) Cooperate and effectively implement, as appropriate, the sanctions 

provided by section 243(d) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1253(d)), with the Secretary 

of State, to the maximum extent permitted by law, ensuring that diplomatic 


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efforts and negotiations with foreign states include the foreign states’ acceptance of their nationals who are subject to removal from the United States; 

and 

(b) Eliminate all documentary barriers, dilatory tactics, or other restrictions 

that prevent the prompt repatriation of aliens to any foreign state. Any 

failure or delay by a foreign state to verify the identity of a national of 

that state shall be considered in carrying out subsection (a) this section, 

and shall also be considered regarding the issuance of any other sanctions 

that may be available to the United States. 

Sec. 14. Visa Bonds. The Secretary of Treasury shall take all appropriate 

action, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of 

Homeland Security, to establish a system to facilitate the administration 

of all bonds that the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security 

may lawfully require to administer the provisions of the INA. 

Sec. 15. Reestablishment of the VOICE Office and Addressing Victims of 

Crimes Committed by Removable Aliens. The Secretary of Homeland Security 

shall direct the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 

to take all appropriate and lawful action to reestablish within ICE an office 

to provide proactive, timely, adequate, and professional services to victims 

of crimes committed by removable aliens, and those victims’ family members. 

The Attorney General shall also ensure that the provisions of 18 U.S.C. 

3771 are followed in all Federal prosecutions involving crimes committed 

by removable aliens. 

Sec. 16. Addressing Actions by the Previous Administration. The Secretary 

of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security 

shall promptly take all appropriate action, consistent with law, to rescind 

the policy decisions of the previous administration that led to the increased 

or continued presence of illegal aliens in the United States, and align any 

and all departmental activities with the policies set out by this order and 

the immigration laws. Such action should include, but is not limited to: 

(a) ensuring that the parole authority under section 212(d)(5) of the INA 

(8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)) is exercised on only a case-by-case basis in accordance 

with the plain language of the statute, and in all circumstances only when 

an individual alien demonstrates urgent humanitarian reasons or a significant 

public benefit derived from their particular continued presence in the United 

States arising from such parole; 

(b) ensuring that designations of Temporary Protected Status are consistent 

with the provisions of section 244 of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1254a), and that 

such designations are appropriately limited in scope and made for only 

so long as may be necessary to fulfill the textual requirements of that 

statute; and 

(c) ensuring that employment authorization is provided in a manner consistent with section 274A of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1324a), and that employment 

authorization is not provided to any unauthorized alien in the United States. 

Sec. 17. Sanctuary Jurisdictions. The Attorney General and the Secretary 

of Homeland Security shall, to the maximum extent possible under law, 

evaluate and undertake any lawful actions to ensure that so-called ‘‘sanctuary’’ jurisdictions, which seek to interfere with the lawful exercise of 

Federal law enforcement operations, do not receive access to Federal funds. 

Further, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 

evaluate and undertake any other lawful actions, criminal or civil, that 

they deem warranted based on any such jurisdiction’s practices that interfere 

with the enforcement of Federal law. 

Sec. 18. Information Sharing. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 

promptly issue guidance to ensure maximum compliance by Department 

of Homeland Security personnel with the provisions of 8 U.S.C. 1373 and 

8 U.S.C. 1644 and ensure that State and local governments are provided 

with the information necessary to fulfill law enforcement, citizenship, or 

immigration status verification requirements authorized by law; and 


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(b) The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 

and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all appropriate action 

to stop the trafficking and smuggling of alien children into the United 

States, including through the sharing of any information necessary to assist 

in the achievement of that objective. 

Sec. 19. Funding Review. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall: 

(a) Immediately review and, if appropriate, audit all contracts, grants, 

or other agreements providing Federal funding to non-governmental organizations supporting or providing services, either directly or indirectly, to removable or illegal aliens, to ensure that such agreements conform to applicable 

law and are free of waste, fraud, and abuse, and that they do not promote 

or facilitate violations of our immigration laws; 

(b) Pause distribution of all further funds pursuant to such agreements 

pending the results of the review in subsection (a) of this section; 

(c) Terminate all such agreements determined to be in violation of law 

or to be sources of waste, fraud, or abuse and prohibit any such future 

agreements; 

(d) Coordinate with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

to ensure that no funding for agreements described in subsection (c) of 

this section is included in any appropriations request for the Department 

of Justice or the Department of Homeland Security; and 

(e) Initiate clawback or recoupment procedures, if appropriate, for any 

agreements described in subsection (c) of this section. 

Sec. 20. Denial of Public Benefits to Illegal Aliens. The Director of the 

Office of Management and Budget shall take all appropriate action to ensure 

that all agencies identify and stop the provision of any public benefits 

to any illegal alien not authorized to receive them under the provisions 

of the INA or other relevant statutory provisions. 

Sec. 21. Hiring More Agents and Officers. Subject to available appropriations, 

the Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement, shall take all appropriate action to significantly increase the 

number of agents and officers available to perform the duties of immigration 

officers. 

Sec. 22. Severability. It is the policy of the United States to enforce this 

order to the maximum extent possible to advance the interests of the United 

States. Accordingly: 

(a) If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision 

to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of 

this order and the application of its other provisions to any other persons 

or circumstances shall not be affected thereby; and 

(b) If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision 

to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid because of the failure 

to follow certain procedures, the relevant executive branch officials shall 

implement those procedural requirements to conform with existing law and 

with any applicable court orders. 

Sec. 23. 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 


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