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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8451-8453]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02009]



                        Presidential Documents 



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

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Title 3--
The President

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                Executive Order 14161 of January 20, 2025

                
Protecting the United States From Foreign 
                Terrorists and Other National Security and Public 
                Safety Threats

                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. Policy and Purpose. (a) It is the policy of 
                the United States to protect its citizens from aliens 
                who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our 
                national security, espouse hateful ideology, or 
                otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent 
                purposes.

                    (b) To protect Americans, the United States must be 
                vigilant during the visa-issuance process to ensure 
                that those aliens approved for admission into the 
                United States do not intend to harm Americans or our 
                national interests. More importantly, the United States 
                must identify them before their admission or entry into 
                the United States. And the United States must ensure 
                that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already 
                present in the United States do not bear hostile 
                attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, 
                institutions, or founding principles, and do not 
                advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign 
                terrorists and other threats to our national security.

                Sec. 2. Enhanced Vetting and Screening Across Agencies.

                    (a) The Secretary of State, in coordination with 
                the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland 
                Security, and the Director of National Intelligence, 
                shall promptly:

(i) identify all resources that may be used to ensure that all aliens 
seeking admission to the United States, or who are already in the United 
States, are vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible;

(ii) determine the information needed from any country to adjudicate any 
visa, admission, or other benefit under the INA for one of its nationals, 
and to ascertain whether the individual seeking the benefit is who the 
individual claims to be and that the individual is not a security or 
public-safety threat;

(iii) re-establish a uniform baseline for screening and vetting standards 
and procedures, consistent with the uniform baseline that existed on 
January 19, 2021, that will be used for any alien seeking a visa or 
immigration benefit of any kind; and

(iv) vet and screen to the maximum degree possible all aliens who intend to 
be admitted, enter, or are already inside the United States, particularly 
those aliens coming from regions or nations with identified security risks.

                    (b) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the 
                Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary 
                of Homeland Security, and the Director of National 
                Intelligence shall jointly submit to the President, 
                through the Assistant to the President for Homeland 
                Security, a report:

(i) identifying countries throughout the world for which vetting and 
screening information is so deficient as to warrant a partial or full 
suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries pursuant to 
section 212(f) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)); and

(ii) identifying how many nationals from those countries have entered or 
have been admitted into the United States on or since January 20,

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2021, and any other information the Secretaries and Attorney General deem 
relevant to the actions or activities of such nationals since their 
admission or entry to the United States.

                    (c) Whenever information is identified that would 
                support the exclusion or removal of any alien described 
                in subsection 2(b), the Secretary of Homeland Security 
                shall take immediate steps to exclude or remove that 
                alien unless she determines that doing so would inhibit 
                a significant pending investigation or prosecution of 
                the alien for a serious criminal offense or would be 
                contrary to the national security interests of the 
                United States.

                Sec. 3. Additional Measures to Protect the Nation. As 
                soon as possible, but no later than 30 days from the 
                date of this order, the Secretary of State, in 
                coordination with the Attorney General, the Secretary 
                of Homeland Security, and the Director of National 
                Intelligence, shall also:

                    (a) Evaluate and adjust all existing regulations, 
                policies, procedures, and provisions of the Foreign 
                Service Manual, or guidance of any kind pertaining to 
                each of the grounds of inadmissibility listed in 
                sections 212(a)(2)-(3) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)-
                (3)), to ensure the continued safety and security of 
                the American people and our constitutional republic;
                    (b) Ensure that sufficient safeguards are in place 
                to prevent any refugee or stateless individual from 
                being admitted to the United States without undergoing 
                stringent identification verification beyond that 
                required of any other alien seeking admission or entry 
                to the United States;
                    (c) Evaluate all visa programs to ensure that they 
                are not used by foreign nation-states or other hostile 
                actors to harm the security, economic, political, 
                cultural, or other national interests of the United 
                States;
                    (d) Recommend any actions necessary to protect the 
                American people from the actions of foreign nationals 
                who have undermined or seek to undermine the 
                fundamental constitutional rights of the American 
                people, including, but not limited to, our Citizens' 
                rights to freedom of speech and the free exercise of 
                religion protected by the First Amendment, who preach 
                or call for sectarian violence, the overthrow or 
                replacement of the culture on which our constitutional 
                Republic stands, or who provide aid, advocacy, or 
                support for foreign terrorists;
                    (e) Ensure the devotion of adequate resources to 
                identify and take appropriate action for offenses 
                described in 8 U.S.C. 1451;
                    (f) Evaluate the adequacy of programs designed to 
                ensure the proper assimilation of lawful immigrants 
                into the United States, and recommend any additional 
                measures to be taken that promote a unified American 
                identity and attachment to the Constitution, laws, and 
                founding principles of the United States; and
                    (g) Recommend any additional actions to protect the 
                American people and our constitutional republic from 
                foreign threats.

                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.

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                    (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. 2025-02009
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