Protecting The American People Against Invasion–Section 3 (Revoking EOs)

Section 3(a) of President Trump’s Executive Order on Protecting The American People Against Invasion is duplicative of the earlier-released EO Initial Rescission of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Section 3 reads:

Sec. 3. Faithful Execution of the Immigration Laws. In furtherance of the policies described in section 2 of this order:

(a) Executive Order 13993 of January 20, 2021 (Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities), Executive Order 14010 of February 2, 2021 (Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework To Address the Causes of Migration, To Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and To Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the United States Border), Executive Order 14011 of February 2, 2021 (Establishment of Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families), and Executive Order 14012 of February 2, 2021 (Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans) are hereby revoked; and

(b) Executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall take all appropriate action to promptly revoke all memoranda, guidance, or other policies based on the Executive Orders revoked in section 3(a) of this order and shall employ all lawful means to ensure the faithful execution of the immigration laws of the United States against all inadmissible and removable aliens.

Every EO mentioned in section 3(a) was already listed as revoked by the EO Initial Rescission of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions. I can only surmise that President Trump wanted everyone to know that these four EOs are SUPER REVOKED. In case there had been any confusion.

Section 3(b) does add something new–a call for agencies to take action. The “implementation” provision of the earlier EO only called for agency heads to “take immediate steps to end Federal implementation of unlawful and radical DEI ideology” and for the Directors of the Domestic Policy Council and the National Economic Council to consider what “orders, memoranda, and proclamations” ought to be revoked because of the revocation of listed Biden EOs. Section 3(b) now makes makes that an agency-by-agency responsibility.

-KitJ