[House Document 119-30]
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119th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - House Document 119-30
DESIGNATING CARTELS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AS FOREIGN TERRORIST
ORGANIZATIONS AND SPECIALLY DESIGNATED GLOBAL TERRORISTS
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COMMUNICATION
from
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
transmitting
A NOTIFICATION THAT EXECUTIVE ORDER 13224 WAS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE
ORDER 14157 OF JANUARY 20, 2025, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1703(b); PUBLIC
LAW 95-223, SEC. 204(b); (91 STAT. 1627)
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March 18, 2025.--Referred jointly to the Committees on Foreign Affairs
and the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
59-011 WASHINGTON : 2025
The White House,
Washington, March 17, 2025.
Hon. Mike Johnson,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
Dear Mr. Speaker: Consistent with applicable law, including
the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701
et seq.), I hereby report that Executive Order 13224 of
September 23, 2001 (Blocking Property and Prohibiting
Transactions with Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or
Support Terrorism), was amended by Executive Order 14157 of
January 20, 2025 (Designating Cartels and Other Organizations
as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated
Global Terrorists).
Sincerely,
Donald J. Trump.
Executive Order
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Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist
Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists
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., the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
(IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. This order creates a process by which
certain international cartels (the Cartels) and other
organizations will be designated as Foreign Terrorist
Organizations, consistent with section 219 of the INA (8 U.S.C.
1189), or Specially Designated Global Terrorists, consistent
with IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702) and Executive Order 13224 of
September 23, 2001 (Blocking Property and Prohibiting
Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or
Support Terrorism), as amended.
(a) International cartels constitute a national-security
threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime, with
activities encompassing:
(i) convergence between themselves and a range of
extra-hemispheric actors, from designated foreign-
terror organizations to antagonistic foreign
governments;
(ii) complex adaptive systems, characteristic of
entities engaged in insurgency and asymmetric warfare;
and
(iii) infiltration into foreign governments across
the Western Hemisphere.
The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and
terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only
destabilized countries with significant importance for our
national interests but also flooded the United States with
deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs.
The Cartels functionally control, through a campaign of
assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal
traffic across the southern border of the United States. In
certain portions of Mexico, they function as quasi-governmental
entities, controlling nearly all aspects of society. The
Cartels' activities threaten the safety of the American people,
the security of the United States, and the stability of the
international order in the Western Hemisphere. Their
activities, proximity to, and incursions into the physical
territory of the United States pose an unacceptable national
security risk to the United States.
(b) Other transnational organizations, such as Tren de
Aragua (TdA) and La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) pose similar
threats to the United States. Their campaigns of violence and
terror in the United States and internationally are
extraordinarily violent, vicious, and similarly threaten the
stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.
(c) The Cartels and other transnational organizations, such
as TdA and MS-13, operate both within and outside the United
States. They present an unusual and extraordinary threat to the
national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United
States. I hereby declare a national emergency, under IEEPA, to
deal with those threats.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to
ensure the total elimination of these organizations' presence
in the United States and their ability to threaten the
territory, safety, and security of the United States through
their extraterritorial command-and-control structures, thereby
protecting the American people and the territorial integrity of
the United States.
Sec. 3. Implementation. (a) Within 14 days of the date of
this order, the Secretary of State shall take all appropriate
action, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the
Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the
Director of National Intelligence, to make a recommendation
regarding the designation of any cartel or other organization
described in section 1 of this order as a Foreign Terrorist
Organization consistent with 8 U.S.C. 1189 and/or a Specially
Designated Global Terrorist consistent with 50 U.S.C. 1702 and
Executive Order 13224.
(b) Within 14 days of the date of this order, the Attorney
General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all
appropriate action, in consultation with the Secretqry of
State, to make operational preparations regarding the
implementation of any decision I make to invoke the Alien
Enemies Act, 50 U.S.C. 21 et seq., in relation to the existence
of any qualifying invasion or predatory incursion against the
territory of the United States by a qualifying actor, and to
prepare such facilities as necessary to expedite the removal of
those who may be designated under this order.
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.
(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.
Donald J. Trump.
The White House, January 20, 2025.
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