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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 18 (Wednesday, January 29, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8439-8440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02004]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 18 / Wednesday, January 29, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14157 of January 20, 2025

                
Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as 
                Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially 
                Designated Global Terrorists

                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., the International 
                Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. 1701 
                et seq. it is hereby ordered:

                Section 1. Purpose. This order creates a process by 
                which certain international cartels (the Cartels) and 
                other organizations will be designated as Foreign 
                Terrorist Organizations, consistent with section 219 of 
                the INA (8 U.S.C. 1189), or Specially Designated Global 
                Terrorists, consistent with IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702) and 
                Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001 (Blocking 
                Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who 
                Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism), as 
                amended.

                    (a) International cartels constitute a national-
                security threat beyond that posed by traditional 
                organized crime, with activities encompassing:

(i) convergence between themselves and a range of extra-hemispheric actors, 
from designated foreign-terror organizations to antagonistic foreign 
governments;

(ii) complex adaptive systems, characteristic of entities engaged in 
insurgency and asymmetric warfare; and

(iii) infiltration into foreign governments across the Western Hemisphere.

                The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and 
                terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not 
                only destabilized countries with significant importance 
                for our national interests but also flooded the United 
                States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and 
                vicious gangs.

                The Cartels functionally control, through a campaign of 
                assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all 
                illegal traffic across the southern border of the 
                United States. In certain portions of Mexico, they 
                function as quasi-governmental entities, controlling 
                nearly all aspects of society. The Cartels' activities 
                threaten the safety of the American people, the 
                security of the United States, and the stability of the 
                international order in the Western Hemisphere. Their 
                activities, proximity to, and incursions into the 
                physical territory of the United States pose an 
                unacceptable national security risk to the United 
                States.

                    (b) Other transnational organizations, such as Tren 
                de Aragua (TdA) and La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) pose 
                similar threats to the United States. Their campaigns 
                of violence and terror in the United States and 
                internationally are extraordinarily violent, vicious, 
                and similarly threaten the stability of the 
                international order in the Western Hemisphere.
                    (c) The Cartels and other transnational 
                organizations, such as TdA and MS-13, operate both 
                within and outside the United States. They present an 
                unusual and extraordinary threat to the national 
                security, foreign policy, and economy of the United 
                States. I hereby declare a national emergency, under 
                IEEPA, to deal with those threats.

                Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States 
                to ensure the total elimination of these organizations' 
                presence in the United States and their ability to 
                threaten the territory, safety, and security of the 
                United States

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                through their extraterritorial command-and-control 
                structures, thereby protecting the American people and 
                the territorial integrity of the United States.

                Sec. 3. Implementation. (a) Within 14 days of the date 
                of this order, the Secretary of State shall take all 
                appropriate action, in consultation with the Secretary 
                of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Secretary of 
                Homeland Security, and the Director of National 
                Intelligence, to make a recommendation regarding the 
                designation of any cartel or other organization 
                described in section 1 of this order as a Foreign 
                Terrorist Organization consistent with 8 U.S.C. 1189 
                and/or a Specially Designated Global Terrorist 
                consistent with 50 U.S.C. 1702 and Executive Order 
                13224.

                    (b) Within 14 days of the date of this order, the 
                Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security 
                shall take all appropriate action, in consultation with 
                the Secretary of State, to make operational 
                preparations regarding the implementation of any 
                decision I make to invoke the Alien Enemies Act, 50 
                U.S.C. 21 et seq., in relation to the existence of any 
                qualifying invasion or predatory incursion against the 
                territory of the United States by a qualifying actor, 
                and to prepare such facilities as necessary to expedite 
                the removal of those who may be designated under this 
                order.

                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. 2025-02004
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