The President of the United States has the final say in most matters of national security, specifically when “dealing with questions of invasion” and removing alien enemies from the country, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller stated during a press gaggle at the White House this week.
Immigration news outlet Border Hawk was on scene when Miller corrected a reporter who queried him about hundreds of “alleged gang members” flown to a supermax prison in El Salvador over the weekend.
“They are actually foreign terrorists and alien enemies of the United States.”
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller corrects a reporter who asked him about the "alleged gang members."
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“They are actually foreign terrorists and alien enemies of the United States, and everything we do is for operational security reasons. We’re dealing with one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations on planet earth,” Miller explained of Tren de Aragua (TdA) operatives who were relocated to Central America under a new deal struck between Washington and San Salvador.
“The President reserves the right to exercise all necessary authorities to secure the homeland and repel any invasion or incursion.”
Miller slammed D.C. District Court Judge Emanuel Boasberg, who attempted to force planes carrying the hardened criminals to turn back via oral directive, despite “not receiving any information” on TdA, international diplomacy related to the matter, or from the intelligence community.
“He’s trying to issue the movement of aircraft that are operating outside the United States – the legal equivalent of directing troop movements overseas,” Miller stated.
“It is certainly, I think, without question, the most unlawful order that any district court judge has issued in our lifetimes, without even a close second.”
He asserted that a district court judge has “no authority to direct the national security operations of the Executive Branch.”
“The President is operating at the apex of his authority when you are dealing with questions of invasion and questions of alien enemy infiltration, as well as the expulsion of terrorist illegal aliens from the country.”
Referencing President Trump’s recent invocation of the “Alien Enemies Act” of 1798, Miller reminded his audience that many of the same men who formulated the act also wrote the Constitution.
“The founding generation that wrote this law… very clearly wanted to ensure the President had the broadest range of authority to remove from the nation, noncitizens who are part of an alien enemy force,” Miller said.
“In the coming days, you will see the full suite of presidential authorities used to extirpate this gang, this terrorist organization, from our soil.”