Donald Trump defends Venezuelan gang deportations despite federal judge’s block

Trump defends Venezuelan gang deportations Source: US Network Pool

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00:00Mr. President, did the administration actually, speaking of orders, violate Judge Boasberg's

00:04order in sending back the Venezuelan gang members and not bringing them back?

00:08I don't know. You have to speak to the lawyers about that.

00:11Are you planning to do more deportations?

00:13I can tell you this. These were bad people. That was a bad group of, as I say, hombres.

00:20That was a bad group. When you look at them and you look at the crimes that they've committed,

00:25you take a look. You don't get any tougher. You don't get worse than that.

00:30You understand that. But you have to ask the lawyers.

00:33Sir, there's been some criticism that the Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked three other

00:38times. They were all during times of war. Do you feel that you're using it appropriately right now?

00:43Well, this is a time of war because Biden allowed millions of people, many of them

00:48criminals, many of them at the highest level. They emptied jails out. Other nations emptied

00:54their jails into the United States. That's an invasion. And these are criminals, many,

00:59many criminals, murderers, drug dealers at the highest level, drug lords,

01:06people from mental institutions. That's an invasion. They invaded our country.

01:12So this isn't — in that sense, this is war. In many respects, it's more dangerous than war

01:19because, you know, in war, they have uniforms. You know who you're shooting at. You know who you're

01:23going after. These are people that came out. They're walking our streets.

01:26We have thousands of murderers that Biden and his incompetence — he was always grossly

01:31incompetent — but that Biden and his people and his probably auto pen — it looked like

01:39we had an auto pen for a president, and we would have been better off if we had probably.