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www.AmericanSecurityToday.com July 2019 - Edition 46 On February 9th, 2017 Presidential Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 13773 on Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Pre- venting International Trafficking. In August 2019, Attorney Gen- eral Barr created the JTFV to carry out the recommendations of the MS-13 subcommit- tee formed under the Attorney General’s Transnational Orga- nized Crime Task Force, , which was the result of President Trump’s February 2017 Execu- tive Order. Executive Order 13773 – En- forcing Federal Law With Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking, , directs the Depart- ments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security, and the Of- fice of the Director of National Intelligence to coordinate a 57