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Karoline Leavitt: The Supreme Court Will ‘Reign In’ Liberal Judges Blocking Deportation Flights
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5/23/2025
During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions about efforts by judges to block Trump's mass deportations.
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You mentioned at the top of the briefing that the migrants were to be sent to a third country.
00:06
I was just wondering, could you share any more on which countries the administration has struck these agreements with
00:11
and what that agreement with South Sudan specifically looks like?
00:14
Well, first of all, I won't litigate foreign policy from the podium.
00:19
But what I will reiterate is the absurdity of this ruling from a district court judge in Boston
00:25
who has just created new immigration laws out of thin air.
00:30
This administration, let me be very clear, because there have been a lot of fake headlines
00:35
about this deportation flight over the last two days,
00:38
this administration has complied with all court orders.
00:42
And the individuals whose names I just revealed and whose criminal histories I just spoke of
00:47
that are on this flight, every single one of them had a final order of removal from our country.
00:52
In fact, one of them, one of these violent illegal criminals, had a final order of removal given to him in 1999.
01:00
It's two years after I was born.
01:01
This individual, this criminal, has been living in our country for an entire generation.
01:07
And now we have a district court judge who is trying to tell the president and the secretary of state
01:13
and the secretary of homeland security that an illegal criminal murderer
01:17
who's been hiding in the shadows in our country for nearly 30 years cannot be deported from United States soil.
01:23
That not only is undermining our entire immigration system,
01:28
but it is also undermining our diplomatic negotiations with countries around the world.
01:33
How are countries on this earth supposed to trust the United States government
01:36
in these good-faith diplomatic negotiations when these countries accept these repatriation flights?
01:41
How are they supposed to trust us if we have radical district court judges who are going to say,
01:46
no, you can't do that?
01:48
And now these illegal criminal murderers and rapists have to sit in Djibouti with our ICE agents
01:54
who now have to sit there for more than two weeks without the proper resources?
01:58
This judge is not only undermining our immigration system, undermining our foreign policy and our national security,
02:03
but this judge is undermining the safety of the ICE agents who are putting their lives on the list,
02:08
on the line to remove this list of illegal criminal terrorists.
02:14
It's truly despicable what's happening in our court system,
02:16
and the president and this administration hope that the Supreme Court will do what it needs to do
02:20
to rein in these liberal activist judges.
02:22
And the Supreme Court has already said it is well within the president's purview to dictate foreign policy,
02:29
and a radical district court judge should not be getting in the way of that.
02:31
We'll see you all later at the Maha event.
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