Shortly after Trump’s border tsar, Tom Homan, declared that he did not care what the judges thought, Stephen Miller, the deputy director of Trump policy personnel, questioned the authority of a judge of the District Court to govern about the president’s immigration policies.
I asked Miller if this administration believes that he must comply with a verbal court order. He took it a step further.
“The American people said, to get these terrorist gangs outside our country. The President has plenary authority under the Constitution, under the Law of Alien Enemies, under the IMA, under the central article, two powers to achieve that and no judge of the District Court, which presides to a small small geography of the whole country, might possibly presume to have the authority to order the expulsion of the terrorists of our soil, which are also illegally here, “he said illegally, calling the order” “”
The White House Cabinet Deputy Director Stephen Miller, talks to journalists at the White House in Washington, on March 17, 2025.
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The White House has not provided the names of the alleged gang members who were deported or no substantial evidence of the crimes committed in the United States.
I asked Miller why the White House has released images and videos of the people who deported but have not launched their names. He cited “operational security” reasons.
“Well, they are actually foreign terrorists and alien enemies in the United States and all we do is for reasons of operational security. We are dealing with one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations on planet Earth,” he said.
He added: “They are even more ruthless and violent than MS-13, so that operational security and public security and national security will always guide any decision made in this regard.”
-ABC News’ Rachel Scott
