Executive Order 14194: Imposing Duties To Address the Situation at Our Southern Border

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• Sec. 6. General Provisions

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(a) As President of the United States, my highest duty is the defense of the country and its citizens. A Nation without borders is not a Nation at all. I will not stand by and allow our sovereignty to be eroded, our laws to be trampled, our citizens to be endangered, or our borders to be disrespected anymore. I previously declared a national emergency with respect to the grave threat to the United States posed by the influx of illegal aliens and illicit drugs into the United States in Proclamation 10886. Pursuant to the NEA, I hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in that proclamation to cover the failure of Mexico to arrest, seize, detain, or otherwise intercept DTOs, other drug and human traffickers, criminals at large, and illicit drugs. […]

Federal Register notes

See: Proc. 10886, January 20, 2025; EO 14198, February 3, 2025; EO 14232, March 6, 2025; EO 14324, July 30, 2025; Notice of January 12, 2026 (91 FR 1665); Proc. 11002, January 14, 2026; EO 14388, February 20, 2026; EO 14389, February 20, 2026 Amended by: EO 14227, March 2, 2025; EO 14289, April 29, 2025; Proc. 10962, July 30, 2025