During Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions about the deportations to El Salvador.
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00:00Gabe.
00:01Thank you, Caroline.
00:02And I also want to thank your press office for releasing that information that you cited
00:07up there regarding the ICE arrests over the last couple of days.
00:11And I have them right here, but what I might ask is why not release the same information
00:17for those who were deported to El Salvador?
00:19Well, first of all, the information was released by the Department of Homeland Security.
00:24The individuals on the flights to El Salvador are foreign terrorists, and those are counter-terrorism
00:29operations.
00:30They are much different than the arrests and final order of removals that you see on a
00:34day-to-day basis that law enforcement agents are conducting around the country.
00:37That information was not, to that detail, was not released by DHS then?
00:41I just told you the reason.
00:43It was a counter-terrorism operation, a deportation of foreign terrorists, not illegal criminals
00:49who have been convicted of heinous crimes living in our American communities.
00:52Two different things, foreign terrorists, illegal immigrant criminal, two different things,
00:56two different definitions.
00:57You should look them up.
00:58Christian, go ahead.