Immigration and citizenship

Executive Order 14010: 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

President: Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Directed regional strategies addressing migration causes and management, expanded lawful pathways, and ordered review of asylum and border-processing policies.

Status: Revoked.

Is Executive Order 14010 still in effect? No. Revoked January 20, 2025; regional strategy replaced.

A family approaches a border-processing building beneath a stylized regional map, handshake and community scenes.
Regional migration and processing, illustrated symbolically; routes are not actual migration or admission data. EO Explained · site-generated editorial illustration · not documentary evidence.

What does Executive Order 14010 do?

The national-security and immigration agencies were assigned regional strategies, border-processing reviews and work on lawful pathways.

Later primary evidence reviewed September 24, 2026: EO 14148 expressly revoked this order. EO 14159 expressly revoked this order. Official source 1 · Official source 2. The cited steps do not establish every downstream effect.

Administration position: The order’s findings and policy rationale were the Biden administration’s positions. This guide distinguishes them from implementation records and judicial rulings.
SignedFebruary 2, 2021
Lead officialsNational Security Council, State, Homeland Security and Justice
Express timing180-day asylum review; strategy work began immediately

Before and after

Before the order

The prior administration used narrower asylum access, third-country agreements and other border restrictions.

After the order

The administration issued Root Causes and Collaborative Migration Management strategies in July 2021 and revised asylum programs; EO 14148 revoked the order and later policy replaced it.

EO 14159 expressly revoked this order.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
NSC and agenciesPrepare root-causes and regional migration strategiesAs directed
DHS and JusticeReview asylum and border processing180 days
State and DHSExpand lawful regional pathwaysOngoing

What happened next

EO 14010 signed.

The two regional migration strategies were published.

EO 14148 revoked EO 14010.

Later primary evidence reviewed: EO 14148 expressly revoked this order. EO 14159 expressly revoked this order.