White House Defends El Salvador Deportation Flights Under Alien Enemies Act

Things go your way in court this afternoon regarding the Enemies Act.

How many more flights do you anticipate would head towards El Salvador in the coming days?

Well, I'm not gonna reveal details of the President's full plan and the administration's full plan with respect to the dismantlement and eradication of TDA.

Um, but a few points on this. One is that, um, the President reserves the right to exercise all necessary authorities to secure the homeland and to repel any invasion or incursion.

Um, the, the judge, which is truly beyond comprehension and belief, issued his unlawful order, uh, without even receiving any information on this terrorist organization, on the diplomacy that had been conducted, uh, internationally by the Secretary of State,

um, any briefing from the intelligence community, um, any information at all.

Um, let alone the fact that, um, he's trying to issue the movement of aircraft that are operating outside the United States, the, the legal equivalent of directing troop movements overseas or moving around an aircraft carrier,

uh, on matters of essential national security.

Uh, it is certainly, I would think without question, the most unlawful order that any district court judge has issued in our lifetimes without even a close second, and it put the lives in danger of the Homeland Security personnel on those aircraft,

and it jeopardized, uh, enormous, uh, massive diplomatic and security issues across the entirety of the Western Hemisphere.

At a fundamental level, a district court judge has no authority to direct the national security operations of the executive branch.

The President is operating at the apex of his authority when you are dealing with questions of invasion, uh, and questions of alien enemy infiltration, as well as the expulsion of terrorist illegal aliens from the country.

That's the President operating at the absolute apex of his constitutional authority, and the founding generation that wrote this law very clearly... These are the same people who wrote the Constitution.

Very clearly wanted to ensure the President had the broadest range of authority to remove from the nation non-citizens who are part of an alien enemy force, and that's the authority the President has, and in the coming days,

you will see the full suite of presidential authorities used to extirpate this gang, this terrorist organization from our soil.

So should other Americans be concerned they'll be deported without due process?

Well, you used the word Americans. We're talking about illegal alien foreign terrorists.

So illegal alien foreign terrorists should be concerned that they will be deported from the country because they will be deported from the country.

Yes.