Task Force on New Americans
Signed June 7, 2006·George W. Bush·71 FR 33593
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Establishes a Task Force on New Americans within the Department of Homeland Security, chaired by the Secretary of Homeland Security, with members from the State, Treasury, Defense, Justice, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Education departments, plus other officials the Secretary designates. The task force is directed to guide federal agencies on helping legal immigrants integrate into American society, especially through English language, civics, and history instruction; promote public-private partnerships encouraging businesses to offer such education; identify ways to expand instruction through faith-based and community groups and encourage volunteer service; and periodically recommend to the President, through the Secretary, ways to improve interagency and federal-state-local cooperation, policy or regulatory changes, and legislation on immigrant integration. The Department must provide funding and administrative support as the Secretary determines, subject to available appropriations and existing legal authorities. The order states it is meant to improve internal government management and does not create enforceable legal rights for any outside party.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to strengthen the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security and Federal, State, and local agencies to help legal immigrants embrace the common core of American civic culture, learn our common language, and fully become Americans, it is hereby ordered
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Executive Order 13404 of June 7, 2006
Task Force on New Americans
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to strengthen the efforts of the
Department of Homeland Security and Federal, State, and
local agencies to help legal immigrants embrace the
common core of American civic culture, learn our common
language, and fully become Americans, it is hereby
ordered as follows:
Section 1. Establishment. The Secretary of Homeland
Security (Secretary) shall immediately establish within
the Department of Homeland Security (Department) a Task
Force on New Americans (Task Force).
Sec. 2. Membership and Operation. (a) The Task Force
shall be limited to the following members or employees
designated by them at no lower than the Assistant
Secretary level or its equivalent:
(i) the Secretary of Homeland Security, who shall serve as Chair;
(ii) the Secretary of State;
(iii) the Secretary of the Treasury;
(iv) the Secretary of Defense;
(v) the Attorney General;
(vi) the Secretary of Agriculture;
(vii) the Secretary of Commerce;
(viii) the Secretary of Labor;
(ix) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(x) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
(xi) the Secretary of Education;
(xii) such other officers or employees of the Department of Homeland
Security as the Secretary may from time to time designate; and
(xiii) such other officers of the United States as the Secretary may
designate from time to time, with the concurrence of the respective heads
of departments and agencies concerned.
(b) The Secretary shall convene and preside at meetings
of the Task Force, direct its work, and as appropriate,
establish and direct subgroups of the Task Force that
shall consist exclusively of Task Force members. The
Secretary shall designate an official of the Department
to serve as the Executive Secretary of the Task Force,
and the Executive Secretary shall head the staff
assigned to the Task Force.
Sec. 3. Functions. Consistent with applicable law, the
Task Force shall:
(a) provide direction to executive departments and
agencies (agencies) concerning the integration into
American society of America's legal immigrants,
particularly through instruction in English, civics,
and history;
(b) promote public-private partnerships that will
encourage businesses to offer English and civics
education to workers;
(c) identify ways to expand English and civics
instruction for legal immigrants, including through
faith-based, community, and other groups, and ways to
promote volunteer community service; and
(d) make recommendations to the President, through the
Secretary, from time to time regarding:
(i) actions to enhance cooperation among agencies on the integration of
legal immigrants into American society;
(ii) actions to enhance cooperation among Federal, State, and local
authorities responsible for the integration of legal immigrants;
(iii) changes in rules, regulations, or policy to improve the effective
integration of legal immigrants into American society; and
(iv) proposed legislation relating to the integration of legal immigrants
into American society.
Sec. 4. Administration. (a) To the extent permitted by
law, the Department shall provide the funding and
administrative support the Task Force needs to
implement this order, as determined by the Secretary.
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair
or otherwise affect:
(i) authority granted by law to an agency or the head thereof; or
(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budget, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(c) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(d) This order is intended to improve the internal
management of the Federal Government. This order is not
intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity
against the United States, its departments, agencies,
entities, instrumentalities, officers, employees,
agents, or any other person.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 7, 2006.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed June 7, 2006. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.