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

The order directs the National Security Advisor, in coordination with the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security and the Attorney General, to prepare two strategies: a Root Causes Strategy addressing instability, corruption, violence, and economic insecurity in the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), and a Collaborative Management Strategy to expand regional asylum capacity and resettlement options. It also directs the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security to review refugee resettlement pathways for Northern Triangle nationals, consider reinstating the Central American Minors parole program, and enhance access to visa programs. It revokes EO 13767 and four other presidential documents from the prior administration, directs immediate cessation of the Prompt Asylum Case Review and Humanitarian Asylum Review programs, orders review of the Migrant Protection Protocols (Remain in Mexico), and directs review of asylum cooperative agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.

The order does not itself reinstate any specific asylum program, rescind any rule, or immediately change the legal status of any individual at the border. Nearly all concrete changes depend on future agency reviews, determinations, rulemakings, or reports. A general severability clause preserves existing agency authorities, and implementation is subject to available appropriations.

Asylum seekers and migrants at the U.S. southern border, particularly nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Also affected are federal immigration agencies, nonprofit and international organizations assisting migrants, and the governments of Northern Triangle countries and Mexico participating in regional migration management.

Asylum seekers who were subject to Remain in Mexico, the Prompt Asylum Case Review program, or the asylum cooperative agreements may see their cases handled differently as agencies carry out required reviews. The immediate revocations remove the legal basis for certain enforcement priorities, though how agencies replace them determines actual on-the-ground effects.

The order works in overlapping tracks. The APNSA coordinates strategy development first; agency reviews of specific programs run in parallel on "prompt" timelines. Where the order directs agencies to "consider" or "determine whether" to act, the agency retains discretion. The 120-, 180-, and 270-day deadlines produce reports and new rules that constitute the second wave of implementation. The Secretary of State must notify Northern Triangle governments of intent to suspend the asylum cooperative agreements before formal termination can occur. Enforcement teeth are limited: the order is subject to appropriations and does not create privately enforceable rights.