# Executive Order 13888 *A U.S. presidential executive order whose local-consent requirement was enjoined by a federal judge in January 2020.* Executive Order 13888 is a United States presidential executive order with a local-consent requirement. A federal judge enjoined that requirement in January 2020.[^1] In the Minnesota record the order appears in one at-issue item, in the Stearns County package. That item concerns the absence of a [[Stearns County Board]] resolution on refugee resettlement.[^1] The record available here does not include the text of Executive Order 13888, its date of issue, the issuing administration, the injunction order, the court or docket, or any county minutes. Those facts are therefore not stated in this article.[^1] ## What The at-issue item describes the order's local-consent requirement as the provision a federal judge enjoined. It dates the injunction to January 2020, which it says was before any [[Minnesota]] county vote was required.[^1] The item does not quote the order's text or cite its publication.[^1] The White House page attached to the item as its anchor is not the text of Executive Order 13888. It is a separate presidential action titled *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity*, and its URL dates it to January 2025, five years after the injunction the item describes. The item gives that page as its example of "a local body's non-action authored elsewhere."[^2] ## When - January 2020: according to the at-issue item, a federal judge enjoined the local-consent requirement of Executive Order 13888.[^1] - 2020: the at-issue item records that no Stearns County Board resolution on refugee resettlement was located.[^1] ## In the at-issue record At-issue item AI-Stearns-052 appears in the section *The Jurisdiction Gap & the Unrecorded Record Edition*. It is drawn from a research file citing two news outlets, MPR News and the Star Tribune.[^1] The item reports that no Stearns County Board resolution on refugee resettlement was located. It attributes that absence, "most likely," to the January 2020 injunction against the order's local-consent requirement, which it says came before any Minnesota county vote was required.[^1] The item's conclusion is that the county's silence "was produced by a federal injunction, not by a county decision."[^1] That conclusion is the item's own inference, drawn from news reporting. The record shows the reported injunction and the absence of a located resolution. It does not establish why the Stearns County Board took no action, because the county's minutes are not in the record.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record, *AI-Stearns-052* (Stearns package; sourced to RESEARCH_NewMinnesotans_SCSU.md ¶22-24, reporting MPR News and Star Tribune coverage, for which no URLs are held) — reports the January 2020 injunction against Executive Order 13888's local-consent requirement and the absence of a located Stearns County Board resolution on refugee resettlement. Its causal attribution is the item's own inference. The URL given is the item's White House anchor and is not a source for Executive Order 13888. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/ [^2]: The White House, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity* (presidential action, URL dated January 2025) — the anchor page attached to at-issue item AI-Stearns-052. It is a separate order and does not establish the text of Executive Order 13888. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/