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This EO - and others like them - would work and would be tolerable, if the powers-that-be exercised its force only upon the criminal element of society.
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I can't help thinking that this isn't even going far enough to describe the danger. To me, the real danger is that we enact these things with all good intention, and they are carried out by a well-meaning government for a few years, MAYBE have a few high-profile success stories, touted to justify their existence; but THEN, as the political winds shift, and the original purpose is forgotten or glossed over, somebody comes along behind the scenes and figures out a way to pervert them, to use them to the advantage of questionable purposes.
And this is a very generous, almost BEST-CASE scenario.
Being such as these things are, these "trust us" laws, we have absolutely no reason to believe that they will not be abused, except blind faith. As Reagan said, government programs have three phases, "a beginning, a muddle, and no end" - we don't trust the government
with good reason.