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administrativeExecutive OrderWashington, D.C., United Statessupported 79.8

Public-safety threats executive order expands DHS record access

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing broader use of criminal-history record information in immigration screening and border-security processes. The action expanded the information-sharing architecture available to DHS for identifying so-called criminal actors and other public-safety threats.

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Published

2/6/2026

Current public event date

Source base

1 sources

Evidence records attached to this event

Actor field

4 ranked

3 primary / 1 structural

Incident links

1

Analyses connected to this incident

Editorial note

Curated from the White House executive order on criminal-actor and public-safety screening.

Event harm

73.0

Overall event-level harm score

Top culpability

50.4

President Donald Trump

Confidence

79.8

How stable the current public reading is

Top responsibility

69.0

Highest primary responsibility before event harm is applied

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Current harm

73.0

The live event-harm score on this post

Current confidence

79.8

How stable the current public reading is

Source base

1

Public sources currently attached to this event

Event harm

Harm context

The public harm score is grounded in who bears the harm, what protections are in play, and the broader social fallout.

Who is harmed

The people, communities, or institutions whose safety, rights, or daily conditions are changed by the event.

Rights or laws at risk

Administrative due process, privacy, public protections, and the scope of agency power are implicated.

Societal impact

The decision can quickly alter agency practice, compliance burdens, and the real-world risk carried by the people subject to it.

Overview

Highest ranked primary actor

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President Donald Trump

Rank #1 with the highest weighted culpability in the current public reading.

Culpability

50.4

Weighted contribution

Confidence

96.0

Attribution stability

Rank #1AuthorizerpersonUnited States

President Donald Trump

Ranked in the public field as a authorizer with a current responsibility band of substantial.

stable 96.0

Responsibility

69.0

Actor-level role score before event harm is applied.

Culpability

50.4

Final contribution after event harm weighting.

Confidence

96.0

Current stability of the attribution.

Evidence links

1

Attached source links for this actor.

Why this actor is ranked here

The president authored and signed the order expanding the federal screening and records-access framework, making the office the clearest authorizer of the change.

1 evidence link

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Ranked actors

4

Actors represented in the ladder and contribution views.

Top actor

President Donald Trump

Highest-ranked primary actor in the current public reading.

Revisions

21

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Ranked field

Other primary actors

These actors sit in the direct chain of authorship, authorization, interpretation, planning, or execution.

Rank #2ExecutoragencyUnited States

Department of Homeland Security screening and vetting apparatus

Ranked in the public field as a executor with a current responsibility band of meaningful.

stable 84.0

Responsibility

57.2

Actor-level role score before event harm is applied.

Culpability

41.8

Final contribution after event harm weighting.

Confidence

84.0

Current stability of the attribution.

Evidence links

1

Attached source links for this actor.

Why this actor is ranked here

DHS personnel and systems are the main executors because the order broadens the screening and records-access tools available to them in practice.

1 evidence link
Rank #3InterpreteragencyUnited States

Federal criminal-records information-sharing systems

Ranked in the public field as a interpreter with a current responsibility band of meaningful.

supported 76.0

Responsibility

50.4

Actor-level role score before event harm is applied.

Culpability

36.8

Final contribution after event harm weighting.

Confidence

76.0

Current stability of the attribution.

Evidence links

1

Attached source links for this actor.

Why this actor is ranked here

The broader screening regime depends on the systems and agencies that expose and route criminal-history records into the new workflow.

1 evidence link

Structural layer

Systemic enablers

These actors do not sit at the direct command or execution layer, but they materially fund, normalize, or otherwise enable the event chain.

Rank #4Fundercitizen groupSystemic enablerUnited States

U.S. public funding base

Shown in the structural layer as a funder with a current responsibility band of negligible.

supported 63.0

Responsibility

14.8

Actor-level role score before event harm is applied.

Culpability

10.8

Final contribution after event harm weighting.

Confidence

63.0

Current stability of the attribution.

Evidence links

1

Attached source links for this actor.

Why this actor is ranked here

Because the order expands a federal enforcement architecture funded through public revenue, the domestic public funding base is included as a low-scoring structural funder.

1 evidence link