Executive Order 14167: Clarifying the Military's Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Purpose
• Sec. 2. Policy
• Sec. 3. Implementation
• Sec. 4. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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(a) As Chief Executive and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, I have no more solemn responsibility than protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the United States along our national borders. The protection of a nation's territorial integrity and national boundaries is paramount for its security. (b) The Armed Forces of the United States have played a long and well-established role in securing our borders against threats of invasion, against unlawful forays by foreign nationals into the United States, and against other transnational criminal activities that violate our laws and threaten the peace, harmony, and tranquility of the Nation. These threats have taken a variety of forms over our Nation's history, but the Armed Forces have consistently played an integral role in protecting the sovereignty of the United States. […]