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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 

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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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

January 20, 2025. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02015 

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