During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the Trump Administration's refusal to identify alleged illegal immigrants and gang members who were deported to El Salvador.
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00:00to the Supreme Court, we certainly will.
00:01Rachel.
00:02Back to those deportation flights to El Salvador, can the administration provide any more details
00:07on how authorities determined that each of those men were in fact members of a gang?
00:12And if the White House can publish images, photos, videos of those men, why can't the
00:17administration just release basic information like their identities and names?
00:20We are not going to reveal operational details about a counterterrorism operation, but what
00:26I can assure you, as I said on Monday, we have the highest degree of confidence in our
00:30ICE agents and our Customs and Border Patrol agents who have committed their lives to targeting
00:36illegal criminals in our country, particularly foreign terrorists.
00:41And they had great evidence and indication.
00:43They have the highest degree of professionalism and they were 100% confident in the individuals
00:49that were sent home on these flights and in the President's executive authority to do
00:52that.
00:53In the last briefing, you cited privacy concerns as a reason why the administration may not
00:57be able to reveal the identities.
00:59What exactly are the privacy rights of immigrants who were deported that the administration
01:03says were dangerous enough to be sent to El Salvador and sent into prison?
01:07Again, as I just said, we're not going to reveal the operational details of a counterterrorism
01:12operation for quite obvious reasons.
01:14We're trying to combat terrorism here in the United States of America.