Stephen Miller speaks to reporters outside the White House.
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00:00Just over a little bit, ma'am.
00:06Good afternoon, everybody. Beautiful day, huh? Nice weather.
00:10I only have time for a few questions because I'm running late to a meeting,
00:13but I'm happy to take any for a moment, if you have any.
00:16I think you were first.
00:21I'm almost at a loss for words for how I've reached this.
00:25Here's an individual, the man who has been deported to his home country of El Salvador,
00:32who has been repeatedly documented by multiple federal and state authorities to be a member of MS-13,
00:38one of the most violent and ruthless criminal organizations on planet Earth,
00:42which is now a designated foreign terrorist organization,
00:45and an individual who has been incredibly implicated in human smuggling and human trafficking,
00:50an individual who is a documented woman-beater,
00:55somebody who has viciously assaulted a woman in ways that shock the human conscious.
01:01That is who the Democrat Party is going to provide aid, solace, and comfort to,
01:07not to Senator Van Hollen's own constituents like the Morin family.
01:12Rachel Morin was viciously beaten, brutally raped, and murdered.
01:17And her mother never even got a phone call from Senator Van Hollen.
01:21Or Kayla Hamilton, a young girl who was attacked in a public restaurant,
01:28raped in the bathroom, and beaten to death and murdered by an illegal alien that Joe Biden set free into the country.
01:35None of those people elicit human sympathy from Senator Van Hollen.
01:40How broken is that man's heart? How broken is his conscience that he doesn't have even an ounce of empathy or time or concern to share with those families?
01:49Or how many of his citizen constituents have been killed by the fentanyl that Joe Biden allowed into this country?
01:55By the cartels that made a fortune off of human trafficking and smuggling into this country?
02:00Or the children in his state that cannot even get a good education or a good health care
02:05because of the mass migration that has occurred into his state? None of that concerns him in the least.
02:10You know, his heart is reserved for an illegal alien who's a member of a foreign terrorist organization.
02:15I'm beyond appalled.
02:17Steven, can you confirm if the head of the IRS points the movement's position and not being appalled?
02:24I don't have any update on the IRS right now, but as soon as you have one, we'll get it to you.
02:28Any other questions?
02:29What about your own power? What can you foresee? What do you foresee happening here?
02:34Well, the president has been very, very clear in his criticisms and disappointment, and he said it perfectly.
02:41Nothing to add to what the president said on that important subject.
02:44Mr. Miller, Letitia James says the allegations against her are nothing more than a revenge tour by the Trump administration.
02:51What's your response?
02:52My response is that Letitia James is one of the most corrupt, shameless individuals ever to hold public office.
02:59She's guilty not only of those crimes, but of countless more crimes, by using and abusing her public office to try to persecute an innocent man,
03:06depriving him of his rights, engaging in a conspiracy to obstruct our election, and to overthrow our democratic processes and procedures.
03:14She's guilty of multiple significant serial criminal violations.
03:18Mr. Miller?
03:19Yes.
03:20Has the administration had any conversations with President Bukele to potentially move Garcia to another country since that seems to be the issue at large?
03:28The President of the United States, Rob Bukele here, you all heard from him himself.
03:34His view is that this foreign terrorist is a citizen and subject of El Salvador.
03:40And Bukele's view is that it is his decision as the president of El Salvador what happens with his own citizens who are lawfully residing in his country,
03:50who have been returned to his country.
03:52And so I have nothing to add to the subject of what El Salvador wishes to do with one of its own citizens.
03:57But it's important to note that the gang that the deported individual claims or claimed previously that he was going to be persecuted by in El Salvador no longer exists.
04:11It does not exist in El Salvador.
04:12The 18th Street Gang does not exist in El Salvador.
04:14So that fake pretense for not wanting to be deported has been completely removed and remedied and no longer exists as a matter of law or reality.
04:24I just want to I want to tell you one story while you're all here that is very important to illustrate for you the genuine evil of the last administration's immigration policies that for whatever reason, our corporate press in this country never really cared to cover and certainly elicited no outrage, no emotion from this country's political and ruling elite.
04:47But this, by the way, this is not an isolated incident.
04:50This is the kind of thing that we discover not only every day, but every hour.
04:54This illustrates how inhuman the policies were the previous administration and how many thousands of lives we were saving by upholding and enforcing our laws.
05:05So there was a 14 year old girl that we discovered who was trapped across the border in the previous administration, stolen from her family in her home country.
05:17The Biden administration made no attempt to return her to her home country or to return her to her family in her home country or to reunify her in any way with her family in her home country.
05:28Instead, they resettled her in the United States with a so called sponsor, that so called sponsor, all funded by our taxpayers, this entire procedure funded by taxpayers, that so called sponsor was himself an illegal alien.
05:43So subject to himself removal and deportation.
05:46Again, the Biden administration did not deport the sponsor, but handed the girl over to the sponsor.
05:51The sponsor claimed to be that girl's brother.
05:54He was not a factor brother.
05:55The Biden administration, of course, did not attempt to verify this in any way, shape or form, as they did not for the hundreds of thousands of minors that were placed in the hands of illegal aliens.
06:05They know they were being lied to.
06:07They didn't care they're being lied to.
06:08This individual was an illegal alien who had no familial relation with this young girl.
06:14What happened next will not surprise you, although it will sadden you.
06:18He raped the 14 year old girl and impregnated her.
06:21So the Biden administration took a young girl, took her away from her family, brought her into the United States, resettled her with an illegal alien 26 year old adult male, subjected her to rape and what anyone would describe as torture.
06:34So the young girl was tortured and raped and impregnated as a result of the choices made by the Biden administration.
06:40When this case was brought to the Biden administration for prosecution, they turned it down and did not even prosecute the case.
06:47So it's evil on top of evil on top of evil.
06:51And I am just I am not interested in moral lectures from anyone in this country, whether they be in the media or the Democrat Party or the corporate press about immigration policy.
07:06When the left has been complicit in the greatest crimes against humanity that we have seen in God knows how many years in this country, a system that has turned human beings into fodder for the cartels and participated in the mass rape and exploitation of children and the mass murder of Americans.
07:26That's what we're fighting against that level of evil and depravity.
07:30And if you are weak or soft or passive in the face of evil, then you will be conquered by it.
07:36And this country will be conquered by it.
07:38And we will not be a free country anymore or a safe country.
07:40We'll be a country ruled by cartels and gangs and terrorists.
07:44That's the stakes.
07:45Those are the stakes of what we are doing right now.
07:47Time for one more question.
07:48Sir, sir.
07:49I wanted to ask you about that.
07:50You mentioned Bukele and the fact that Garcia is now in El Salvador's custody.
07:54But the question is, has President Trump expressed any interest at all in seeing Garcia move to a different country?
08:00Or would he want him to stay in El Salvador?
08:03Did he discuss that with Bukele or any of his advisers, specifically with immigration?
08:07Well, the Supreme Court has been abundantly clear when it overturned the lower court's ruling that the foreign policy of the United States cannot be compelled
08:17by district court.
08:19The view of our administration has been very clear and consistent that this man is a subject and citizen of El Salvador.
08:27And El Salvador, as a sovereign country, has informed us repeatedly and publicly that it is their desire and intention to retain custody of him.
08:36And of course, we as a U.S. government cannot forcibly retrieve him against the witches of El Salvador.
08:42Of course, again, as we discussed at some length in these settings, if we were to forcibly retrieve him, the irony would be is that because he's here illegally and has a deportation order,
08:51he would simply be deported a second time back to El Salvador because the withholding order that has been so much discussed is no longer valid or enforced because he's a member of a foreign terrorist organization.
09:02And because the fake claim that he completely fabricated about being persecuted by a rival gang no longer exists, the gang itself no longer exists in the country.
09:11I'll take one more question.
09:12Sir, when are we going to see accountability and consequences for sanctuary state and local officials that are violating AUSC 1324 by harboring illegal aliens?
09:24Yeah.
09:25As well as, isn't it kind of bizarre that Chris Van Hollen tried to smuggle and facilitate the reentry of this illegal alien also in violation of AUSC 1324?
09:36Yeah, we also haven't heard any stories about the Logan Act this time around for whatever reason.
09:41So, the, uh, it's a great question.
09:46And a knowledgeable question.
09:47I don't get a lot of questions around here where people are citing the Immigration and Nationality Act.
09:51So, that's great.
09:52The, you're exactly right that the sanctuary cities are engaged in multiple criminal violations, harboring, smuggling, inducing, obstructing justice, obstructing official proceedings, and many other crimes.
10:06And this is something that the Department of Justice is taking a very hard look at.
10:11I will just say that it is my view, the view of this administration, that these cities are engaged in systemic criminal violations, and that they are engaged in a scheme to nullify and obstruct the duly enacted laws of the United States of America.
10:27And I would, again, note when we talk about morality, talk about decency.
10:32Sanctuary cities shield criminal illegal aliens from removal.
10:35We repeatedly go into communities and arrest illegal aliens who were previously in custody, that they refused to turn over, that were sent back onto the street, that have subsequently raped or abused a child.
10:46I just want you to think about that for a second.
10:49You have sanctuary cities like Los Angeles, like Boston, like Chicago, where illegal aliens will be booked, arrested, placed into city or state custody, charged with serious crimes.
11:02ICE will ask them to be turned over for deportation.
11:05They will willfully release them back onto the street, obstructing federal law enforcement, doing so at a time and place of their choosing, making sure that we don't know where and when they will be set free.
11:15And then those illegal aliens will go out and take someone's son or someone's daughter and abuse and rape them.
11:22This is, the word scandal doesn't even come close to describing the enormity of the evil that we are talking about with these policies.
11:31That repeatedly subjecting citizens on purpose, deliberately, deliberately, with malice aforethought to crimes against them and their families by individuals who by law shall be removed from this country.
11:43You know, and we have a whole body of immigration law, by the way, the last administration shredded, that says illegal aliens shall not be allowed into the country, shall be detained through removal, shall not be set free.
11:55That they chose repeatedly in mass to not only ignore, but to give them parole, to give them work permits, to give them welfare, a scheme to violate our laws.
12:05You're not talking about just one time or two times or three times. Millions and millions of times they engage in this scheme.
12:12So much criminality that it defies our ability to even catalog it.
12:16And the wages of that, the destruction that created, can only be measured in the tears of all the moms and dads whose kids are now dead, whether dead by drugs or dead by crime.
12:26And that doesn't even measure the impacts on our education system.
12:29I mean, we always talk about how low our test scores in this country.
12:32And no one ever talked about the fact that we have a completely open border until Donald Trump with the world flooding our schools with students who are not even literate in the language in the countries from which they came.
12:42Destroyed our education system. Destroyed our infrastructure. Destroyed our health care system.
12:47Where do Americans go to get their cities back? Where do they go to get their lives back? Where do they go to get their lost income?
12:52How many small businesses have been closed over the years because they were competing with illegal labor?
12:57How many lives and dreams have been destroyed?
13:00The other side in this debate, this isn't a debate between two reasonable points of view.
13:06It's a debate between a political party led by Donald Trump that believes in nationhood, that believes in sovereignty, that believes in the idea that there is such a thing as citizenship and it's sacred,
13:15and a party that is literally waging war against the very idea of nationhood.
13:20And as far as they're concerned, every single American citizen who's hurt or killed as a result is acceptable collateral damage.
13:27Well, it's not acceptable to Donald Trump and we're shutting it down and we'll never apologize for it. Thank you.
13:32Mr. Miller, our due process...