EO 13848, or the 2018 EO

EO 13757 - President Obama

Some responses I found from Reddit:

1. When it comes to rights, there are two ways you can have them. You can have them because the government can't stop you (constitutional rights), or you can have them because the government promised you something.

Think about it like a parent. If your parent tells you "I won't ever tell you that you can't read" that's giving you a 'right' to read. If your parent tells you "I'm going to give you a cookie if you finish your homework" that's now giving you a 'right' to a cookie.

There are times when the Government makes that kind of promise it becomes interpreted as a "property interest" for the individual benefiting from it. A good example would be welfare. Once the government grants me welfare, it can't take it away without giving me notice and a hearing.

What it's really saying isn't "this isn't law" but rather "there is no way that an individual has some right under this that he can enforce against the U.S government."

Let me use some parentheses to break it down:

This order is not intended to (and does not) create any right (or benefit) (substantive or procedural), enforceable (at law or in equity) by a party against the United States, (its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person).

Take it in the most straightforward way (without all the subordinate clauses):

"This order is not intended to create any right enforceable, by a party, against the United States."

A "party against the United States" is better read as "a party, against the United States." It's a party trying to enforce a right against the United States. Against in this case just meaning "the United States is the entity who would be forced to provide the right."

2. It means what you first said it means. You can't quote executive orders as law and sue people for not upholding them, because they aren't laws. They're just... orders, like the ones your five-year-old self gets from adults all the time.

Are you going to lawfagging school?