White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller says a Salvadoran national was "not mistakenly deported" as the media was led to believe, the Daily Wire reported. Miller says the erroneous claim comes from a "saboteur" Justice Department attorney who has since been dismissed.
Miller was a guest on Fox News Saturday to set the record straight about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. President Donald Trump's administration deported him to his native El Salvador, but reports claimed that it was done in error.
Abrego Garcia was identified as an illegal alien who was also identified as a member of the dangerous MS-13 gang. The left used the narrative that he was not supposed to be deported to hammer Trump, but Miller said they got the story all wrong.
Fox News host Bill Hemmer noted that the administration claims there were misconceptions about the case and said Miller was on air to "straighten it out." Miller got right to it without holding back.
"He was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador. He is an illegal alien from El Salvador. In 2019, he was ordered deported," Miller charged.
He [has] a final removal order from the United States. These are things that no one disputes. Where is he from? El Salvador. Where is he a resident and citizen of? El Salvador. Is he here illegally? Yes. Does he have a deportation order? Yes," Miller went on.
Although Miller didn't name names, he said that the initial reports came from a particular Justice Department attorney with an agenda. "A DOJ lawyer–who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat–put into a filing incorrectly that this was a mistaken removal," Miller noted.
"It was not. This was the right person sent to the right place," Miller added.
Miller said that there was a strong case that even with the withholding order, Abrego Garcia had to go. "Now some have said, 'well, but he had a thing called a withholding order' – so a withholding order means you’ve been ordered deported, but an immigration judge is saying you cannot go back to a particular country," Miller said.
"Here’s the thing: if you are a member of a foreign terrorist organization, you cannot have a withholding order. Since he’s in MS-13, there is no withholding order," Miller added. Trump designated the gang as a terrorist organization as one of his first executive orders after taking office.
"Furthermore, the gang he is accused of being persecuted by doesn’t exist anymore in El Salvador. The 18th Street gang is gone," Miller noted.
The left believes Abrego Garcia's assertion that he is not a gang member despite evidence to the contrary. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents used a tip from a confidential informant to verify Abrego Garcia's membership as an MS-13 gang member.
The left hates that the Trump administration is clearing dangerous illegal immigrants from American streets, and they will do anything they can to undermine him. Abrego Garcia appears to be someone who was correctly deported despite the hysterical claims otherwise.
