By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 USC 1101. and following.and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. Over the past four years, the United States has suffered a full-scale invasion of unprecedented scale. Millions of illegal aliens from countries and regions around the world have successfully entered the United States where they currently reside, including potential terrorists, foreign spies, members of cartels, gangs and criminal organizations violent transnational corporations, as well as other hostile actors with malicious intentions.
Deadly narcotics and other illicit materials have flowed across the border as officers and agents 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 significant risks to public safety and security, and divert critical resources intended to prevent the entry of contraband and fugitives in the United States.
We have limited information on the precise fate of many of these illegal aliens who entered the United States over the past four years.
This cannot hold. A nation without borders is not a nation, and the federal government must act urgently and forcefully to end the threats posed by an insecure border.
One of my most important obligations is to protect the American people from the disastrous effects of mass, illegal migration and relocation.
My administration will mobilize all available resources and authorities to end this unprecedented flood of illegal aliens entering the United States.
Second. 2. Politics. It is the policy of the United States to take all appropriate measures to secure our nation’s borders by the following means:
(a) Establish a physical wall and other barriers monitored and supported by adequate personnel and technology;
(b) Deter and prevent the entry of illegal aliens into the United States;
(c) Detain, to the fullest extent of the law, aliens apprehended on suspicion of violating federal or state law until they are removed from the United States ;
(d) Promptly expel all aliens who enter or remain in violation of federal law;
(e) Pursue criminal prosecution of illegal aliens who violate immigration laws and those who facilitate their illegal presence in the United States;
(f) Cooperate fully with state and local law enforcement officials to establish federal-state partnerships to enforce federal immigration priorities; And
g) Obtain complete operational control of the borders of the United States.
Second. 3. Physical obstacles. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security will take all appropriate actions to deploy and construct temporary and permanent physical barriers to ensure full operational control of the southern border of the United States.
Second. 4. Deployment of personnel. (a) The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security will take all appropriate and lawful measures to deploy sufficient personnel along the southern border of the United States to ensure full operational control; And
(b) The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security will take all appropriate actions to supplement the personnel available to secure the southern border and enforce the immigration laws of the United States using sections 1103(a)(2). ) and (4). )-(6) of the INA (8 USC 1103(a)(2) and (4)-(6)).
Second. 5. Detention. The Secretary of Homeland Security will take all appropriate measures to detain, to the fullest extent of the 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 ending the practice commonly referred to as ” catch and release,” by which illegal aliens are routinely released into the United States shortly after their arrest for immigration violations.
Second. 6. Resumption of migrant protection protocols. As soon as possible, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, will take all appropriate steps to resume migrant protection protocols in all areas along the southern border of the United States. United and will ensure that, in the meantime, In connection with removal proceedings, aliens described in section 235(b)(2)(C) of the INA (8 USC 1225(b)( 2)(C)) are referred to the territory from which they came.
Second. 7. Adjustment of parole policies. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall, consistent with applicable law, take all appropriate measures to:
(a) Discontinue using the “CBP One” application as a method of parole or facilitation of entry of otherwise inadmissible aliens into the United States;
(b) End all categorical parole programs that are contrary to United States policies established in my Executive Orders, including the program known as the “Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan Process.” “.
(c) Align all policies and operations at the southern border of the United States to be consistent with the policy in section 2 of this order and ensure that all future parole determinations are in full compliance with the this order and the applicable law.
Second. 8. Additional international cooperation. The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, will take all appropriate actions to facilitate additional international cooperation and agreements, consistent with the policy in Article 2, including entering into agreements based on the provisions of section 208. (a)(2)(A) of the INA (8 USC 1158(a)(2)(A)) or any other applicable legal provision.
Second. 9. DNA and identification requirements. (a) The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security will take all appropriate actions to satisfy the requirements of the DNA Act of 2005, Title X of Public Law 109-162, for all aliens detained under the authority from the United States; And
(b) The Secretary of Homeland Security will take all appropriate steps to use all available technologies and procedures to determine the validity of any purported domestic relationship between aliens encountered or apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security.
Second. 10. Prosecution of infractions. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security will take all appropriate actions to prioritize the prosecution of offenses relating to the borders of the United States, including the investigation and prosecution of offenses involving human trafficking, human trafficking, child trafficking and sex trafficking. traffic in the United States.
Second. 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 will provide recommendations to the President regarding the use of any other authority to protect the United States. States against foreign threats and securing the southern border.
Second. 12. General provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed as impairing or otherwise affecting:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or to its head; Or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative or legislative proposals.
(b) This Order will be implemented in accordance 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.
