Presidential DocumentExecutive Order 141612025-02009
Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats
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January 30, 2025
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January 20, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02009]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 19 / Thursday, January 30, 2025 /
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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.
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