Karoline Leavitt: The Supreme Court Will ‘Reign In’ Liberal Judges Blocking Deportation Flights

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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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00:00You mentioned at the top of the briefing that the migrants were to be sent to a third country.

00:06I was just wondering, could you share any more on which countries the administration has struck these agreements with

00:11and what that agreement with South Sudan specifically looks like?

00:14Well, first of all, I won't litigate foreign policy from the podium.

00:19But what I will reiterate is the absurdity of this ruling from a district court judge in Boston

00:25who has just created new immigration laws out of thin air.

00:30This administration, let me be very clear, because there have been a lot of fake headlines

00:35about this deportation flight over the last two days,

00:38this administration has complied with all court orders.

00:42And the individuals whose names I just revealed and whose criminal histories I just spoke of

00:47that are on this flight, every single one of them had a final order of removal from our country.

00:52In fact, one of them, one of these violent illegal criminals, had a final order of removal given to him in 1999.

01:00It's two years after I was born.

01:01This individual, this criminal, has been living in our country for an entire generation.

01:07And now we have a district court judge who is trying to tell the president and the secretary of state

01:13and the secretary of homeland security that an illegal criminal murderer

01:17who's been hiding in the shadows in our country for nearly 30 years cannot be deported from United States soil.

01:23That not only is undermining our entire immigration system,

01:28but it is also undermining our diplomatic negotiations with countries around the world.

01:33How are countries on this earth supposed to trust the United States government

01:36in these good-faith diplomatic negotiations when these countries accept these repatriation flights?

01:41How are they supposed to trust us if we have radical district court judges who are going to say,

01:46no, you can't do that?

01:48And now these illegal criminal murderers and rapists have to sit in Djibouti with our ICE agents

01:54who now have to sit there for more than two weeks without the proper resources?

01:58This judge is not only undermining our immigration system, undermining our foreign policy and our national security,

02:03but this judge is undermining the safety of the ICE agents who are putting their lives on the list,

02:08on the line to remove this list of illegal criminal terrorists.

02:14It's truly despicable what's happening in our court system,

02:16and the president and this administration hope that the Supreme Court will do what it needs to do

02:20to rein in these liberal activist judges.

02:22And the Supreme Court has already said it is well within the president's purview to dictate foreign policy,

02:29and a radical district court judge should not be getting in the way of that.

02:31We'll see you all later at the Maha event.

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