'Think About That For A Second': Stephen Miller Makes Case Against Sanctuary Cities

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Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Stephen Miller tore into sanctuary cities.

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00:00in the country. I'll take one more question.

00:02Mr. Miller, a federal appeals judge...

00:04Sir, when are we going to see accountability and consequences for

00:08Secretary of State and local officials that are violating AUSC 1324

00:12by harboring illegal aliens?

00:15As well as, isn't it kind of bizarre that

00:18Chris Van Hollen tried to smuggle

00:21and facilitate the re-entry of this illegal alien

00:24also in violation of AUSC 1324?

00:26We also haven't heard any stories about the Logan Act this time around for whatever reason.

00:29So, it's a great question.

00:36An knowledgeable question.

00:37I don't get a lot of questions around here where people are citing the Immigration and Nationality Act.

00:41So, that's great.

00:43You're exactly right that the sanctuary cities are engaged in

00:47multiple criminal violations,

00:49harboring, smuggling, inducing, obstructing justice,

00:53obstructing official proceedings,

00:54and many other crimes.

00:56And this is something that the Department of Justice is taking a very hard look at.

01:00I will just say that it is my view,

01:03the view of this administration,

01:05that these cities are engaged in systemic criminal violations,

01:10and that they are engaged in a scheme to nullify and obstruct the duly enacted laws of the United States of America.

01:17And I would again note, when we talk about morality, we talk about decency.

01:22Sanctuary cities shield criminal illegal aliens from removal.

01:25We repeatedly go into communities and arrest illegal aliens who were previously in custody,

01:30that they refused to turn over,

01:32that were sent back onto the street,

01:34that have subsequently raped or abused a child.

01:36I just want you to think about that for a second.

01:39You have sanctuary cities, like Los Angeles, like Boston, like Chicago,

01:44where illegal aliens will be booked, arrested, placed into city or state custody,

01:50charged with serious crimes.

01:52ICE will ask them to be turned over for deportation.

01:55They will willfully release them back onto the street,

01:58obstructing federal law enforcement,

02:00doing so at a time and place that they're choosing,

02:02making sure that we don't know where and when they will be set free.

02:05And then those illegal aliens will go out and take someone's son or someone's daughter

02:10and abuse and rape them.

02:12This is, the word scandal doesn't even come close to describing the enormity of the evil

02:19that we are talking about with these policies.

02:21But repeatedly subjecting citizens on purpose, deliberately, deliberately,

02:25with malice aforethought,

02:27to crimes against them and their families by individuals who by law shall be removed from this country.

02:32You know, and we have a whole body of immigration law, by the way,

02:36the last administration shredded,

02:38that says illegal aliens shall not be allowed to enter the country,

02:41shall be detained through removal,

02:43shall not be set free,

02:45that they chose repeatedly, in mass,

02:49to not only ignore,

02:50but to give them parole,

02:51to give them work permits,

02:52to give them welfare,

02:53a scheme to violate our laws.

02:55You're not talking about just one time,

02:56or two times,

02:57or three times.

02:58Millions and millions of times,

03:00they engage in this scheme.

03:02So much criminality,

03:03that it defies our ability to even catalog it.

03:06And the wages of that,

03:08the destruction that created,

03:10can only be measured in the tears of all the moms and dads whose kids are now dead,

03:14whether dead by drugs,

03:15or dead by crime.

03:16And that doesn't even measure the impacts on our education system.

03:19I mean, we always talk about how low our test scores in this country.

03:22And no one ever talks about the fact that we have a completely open border

03:24until Donald Trump with the world flooding our schools with students

03:28who are not even literate in the language in the countries from which they came.

03:32Destroyed our education system.

03:33Destroyed our infrastructure.

03:35Destroyed our healthcare system.

03:37Where do Americans go to get their cities back?

03:39Where do they go to get their lives back?

03:40Where do they go to get their lost income?

03:42How many small businesses have been closed over the years

03:44because they were competing with illegal labor?

03:47How many lives and dreams have been destroyed?

03:49The other side in this debate,

03:52this isn't a debate between two reasonable points of view.

03:56It's a debate between a political party led by Donald Trump

03:59that believes in nationhood,

04:01that believes in sovereignty,

04:02that believes in the idea that there is such a thing as citizenship and it's sacred,

04:05and a party that is literally waging war against the very idea of nationhood.

04:10And as far as they're concerned,

04:12every single American citizen who's hurt or killed as a result,

04:15it's acceptable collateral damage.

04:17Well, it's not acceptable to Donald Trump,

04:18and we're shutting it down and we'll never apologize for it.

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