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This is a presidential proclamation (Proclamation 10913), a formal, largely ceremonial statement by the President. It designates April 2025 as National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month and calls on the public to support survivors and help prevent sexual assault.
A proclamation of this type creates no new law, program, or funding on its own; its operative effect is naming the observance and issuing a public call to action. Most of its text describes actions the document says were taken through other, separate measures — declaring a national emergency at the southern border, designating cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists, signing the Laken Riley Act (which the text says requires ICE to detain immigrants in the country illegally who are convicted of burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting), a deportation operation, and renaming the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Texas to the Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge. Those changes derive from those separate orders and laws, not from this proclamation. The document also frames the observance around immigration enforcement and ties sexual violence to illegal immigration — framing and characterizations that are the proclamation’s own statements, not independently established facts.
The proclamation does not direct any federal agency to take a specific action; it urges all Americans, families, law enforcement personnel, healthcare providers, and community and faith-based organizations to support survivors and work to prevent these crimes. Its practical effect is symbolic and awareness-raising rather than regulatory, so no group gains or loses legal rights or obligations because of it.