At a press gaggle outside the White House, Stephen Miller mounted a defense of the Trump Administration deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to an El Salvador prison.
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00:00Hey, I'm good, thank you. Good morning, everybody. Who wants to go first?
00:05I'll ask, do you plan on ramping up the administration plan on ramping up deportations to El Salvador?
00:12And how many people do you want El Salvador to take from the United States?
00:16Well, as an example, there are thousands of either trained de Uruguay members left in this country or their affiliates and associates.
00:27So, obviously, some portion of those will be going to El Salvador as part of our effort to eradicate this foreign terrorist organization from the United States.
00:37But there's no upper limit to the agreement.
00:39We're going to continue to send foreign terrorist aliens to El Salvador as well as to many other countries.
00:46I think you were first, I think.
00:49Is the president asking President Bukele today to send Mr. Frego Garcia back to the U.S.?
00:55Again, to be very clear about this, the Supreme Court ruled that the district court cannot, obviously, compel us to conduct diplomacy or foreign policy with another nation.
01:09So they overturned the district court order.
01:11They said very clearly that the district court, it was actually unanimous ruling, overreached in that ruling.
01:16I'm not going to reveal any head of state conversations or conversations at the State Department or the lower level.
01:23But the important point that we all agree on is that he's an El Salvadorian.
01:28That is his country of nativity and citizenship.
01:31He is an illegal alien in the United States.
01:33He has no lawful right to be here.
01:34He was issued a final order of removal from this country.
01:37And so it's up to El Salvador and to the government and the people of El Salvador what the fate of their own citizens is.
01:45We can't extradite citizens of foreign countries to our country over the objection of those countries.
01:51Obviously, to do that would be a monstrous violation of international law.
01:56We can't go into other countries and kidnap their citizens and then take them back into our country.
02:00That's up to El Salvador and their own.
02:02But you can ask for the dissent and back, right?
02:03But it's their own citizen, right?
02:07So remember, this whole entire conversation has been wrong from the beginning because nobody was mistakenly deported anywhere.
02:14That's the big fact that all of you, most of you have gotten it wrong.
02:18No one was mistakenly sent anywhere.
02:20The only mistake that was made is a lawyer put an incorrect line in a legal filing and they've since been relieved of doing it.
02:26He is El Salvadorian.
02:29He is an illegal alien.
02:31He was deported to El Salvador.
02:33I would welcome anyone here to tell me what country they think we should be sending El Salvadorian illegal aliens to.
02:39Didn't the judge order that he not be deported to El Salvador five years ago?
02:44So what you're referring to is an immigration judge.
02:47So that's Article 2, not Article 3.
02:49So there was no Article 3 restraint on his removal.
02:53A withholding order or a cancellation of removal order, first of all, as I'm sure you know, does not eliminate the deportation order, right?
03:00We all agree on that.
03:01So his status was he's an illegal alien who's been ordered deported, which means he could be indefinitely detained and removed to any other country in the world, right?
03:09He could be sent to literally any country on the face of the earth.
03:12But the preference, general matter, is to deport someone to their home country, right?
03:17In this case, El Salvador.
03:17Because he is a member of a foreign terrorist organization, withholding orders don't apply to FTOs for obvious reasons.
03:25So if you had an illegal alien, say, from Syria, who's a member of ISIS, they can't apply for withholding of removal.
03:34So that principle applies here.
03:36Furthermore, the gang that he said was going to persecute him, so this theory that he's an MS-13 and there's this rival gang, the 18th Street Gang, doesn't exist anymore in El Salvador.
03:47So the entire concept is false.
03:51But again, when the media talks about the idea that there was a mistaken removal, it implies to, I think, a normal listener, the wrong person was sent somewhere.
04:02He's an illegal alien from El Salvador.
04:04Where was he sent?
04:05To El Salvador.
04:06To prison in El Salvador.
04:07That's different, right?
04:08It's different sending someone home and sending them into a prison that they could remain in for life.
04:12It is up to El Salvador how to handle the process for their own citizens.
04:19Again, what you seem to be asking us to do is to change the government and the laws of El Salvador.
04:23So if we deport somebody back to, for example, Syria, should we be closely involved on a day-to-day basis with the Syrian government, detailing that person's life and future?
04:32If we deport, say, 100,000 people back to Haiti, should we open a case file on each of those 100,000 people and ask every day, what's their housing situation?
04:41What's their health care situation?
04:43What might they need?
04:44What might they want?
04:45Once someone's out of our country, that becomes the problem of their host country, not our country.
04:50These people chose to invade us.
04:52So there's a lot of concern from the corporate media about the invaders, but they chose to invade us.
04:57It's our responsibility to return them back to where they came from or another country willing to take them.
05:03Stephen, I can't keep it.
05:04Stephen, is the president going to-