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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 wellestablished 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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

January 20, 2025. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02089 

Filed 1–29–25; 11:15 am] 

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