Karoline Leavitt Pressed For Information About The People Who Were Deported To El Salvador

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.