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Executive Order 13228 Establishing The Office of Homeland Security and The Homeland Security Council

Executive Order 13228 established the Office of Homeland Security within the Executive Office of the President to develop and coordinate a national strategy to secure the United States from terrorist threats. The order tasked the Office with coordinating all executive branch efforts related to detecting, preventing, and responding to terrorist attacks within the US.

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Executive Order 13228 Establishing The Office of Homeland Security and The Homeland Security Council

Executive Order 13228 established the Office of Homeland Security within the Executive Office of the President to develop and coordinate a national strategy to secure the United States from terrorist threats. The order tasked the Office with coordinating all executive branch efforts related to detecting, preventing, and responding to terrorist attacks within the US.

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Order 13228 Establishing the Office of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Council By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1 - I hereby establish within the Executive Office of the President an Office of Homeland Security Sec. 2 - The mission of the Office shall be to develop and coordinate a comprehensive national strategy to secure the United States from terrorist threats or attacks Sec. 3 - The functions of the Office shall be to coordinate the executive branch's efforts to detect, prepare for, prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks within the United States.

GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, October 8, 2001

June 15, 2012 FROM: Janet Napolitano Secretary of Homeland Security SUBJECT: Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children By this memorandum, I am setting forth how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should enforce the Nation's immigration laws against certain young people who were brought to this country as children and know only this country as home. As a general matter, these individuals lacked the intent (wish) to violate the law The following criteria should be satisfied before an individual is considered [exempt from deportation]: came to the United States under the age of sixteen; has continuously resided in the United States for a least five years and is present in the United States... is currently in school, has graduated from high school, has obtained a general education development (GED) certificate, or is an honorably discharged veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States; has not been convicted of a felony offense or otherwise [does not pose] a threat to national security or public safety; and is not above the age of thirty. Janet Napolitano, under the orders of

BARACK H. OBAMA THE WHITE HOUSE, June 15, 2012

By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation (statement) On the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State[where] the people [are] in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free... Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States [known as the Civil War, order this action] as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing (ending) said rebellion And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from (avoid) all violence, unless in necessary self-defense... By the President:

By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation (statement) on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State[where] the people [are] in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free... Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in- Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States [known as the Civil War, order this] as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing (ending) said rebellion And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense... By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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