Executive Order 14167Executive Order

Clarifying the Military's Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States

Donald J. Trump

Signed: Jan 20, 2025

Published: Jan 30, 2025

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##Summary This document is Executive Order 14167, signed by the President on January 20, 2025. It orders the Department of Defense to increase the military’s role in protecting the United States’ sovereignty and territorial integrity along the southern border. The order characterizes a continuing national emergency at the border and instructs specific changes to planning and command arrangements to seal the border and repel forms of unlawful entry and other criminal activity, such as narcotics trafficking and human smuggling. It also lays out general provisions ensuring the order works within existing law, budgets, and agency authorities, and it clarifies that the order does not create new rights.

Key Points

1Declares a national emergency at the southern border and formalizes an expanded military role in protecting the United States’ sovereignty and territorial integrity at the borders, including addressing unlawful migration and related criminal activity.
2Establishes policy that the Armed Forces should prioritize border sovereignty and border-security objectives along the national borders.
3Implementation steps for DoD:
4- (a) Within 10 days, revise the Unified Command Plan to assign USNORTHCOM the mission to seal the borders and defend sovereignty, including repelling unlawful migration, narcotics trafficking, and human smuggling.
5- (b) Add to Contingency Planning Guidance and Guidance for the Employment of the Force:
6- (i) Level 3 planning for USNORTHCOM with a commander’s estimate due within 30 days.
7- (ii) Campaign planning to maintain steady-state southern border security and “seal the border.”
8- (iii) Ongoing assessments of options to protect the border from mass unlawful entry and related threats.
9General provisions:
10- (a) Does not impair authorities of executive departments/agencies or the Director of the OMB.
11- (b) Implementation must follow applicable law and budget availability.
12- (c) The order does not create new legal rights or benefits enforceable by law.

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