Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists

[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 18 (Wednesday, January 29, 2025)]

[Presidential Documents]

[Pages 8439-8440]

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Executive Order 14157 of January 20, 2025

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:

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.

afety 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

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through their extraterritorial command-and-control

structures, thereby protecting the American people and

the territorial integrity of the United States.

ganizations'

presence in the United States and their ability to

threaten the territory, safety, and security of the

United States

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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 Secretary 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.

n 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.

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