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00:00All right, let's get to some news.
00:01It's four minutes after the top of the hour.
00:02The White House is defending its decision
00:04to send hundreds of alleged gang members
00:07to a super prison down in El Salvador.
00:09And President Trump is thanking the country
00:12for taking all of those illegal migrants in.
00:15Good job, El Salvador.
00:16One of the great stories essential in South America.
00:18Maddie Rivera is live in Washington.
00:20Maddie.
00:21Hi guys, good morning.
00:21The president of El Salvador says
00:23more than 200 trend Aragua members
00:26arrived in the country over the weekend.
00:28He also says they received almost two dozen
00:30MS-13 gang members from the U.S.
00:33A senior Trump administration official
00:35tells our Bill Malugian 261 illegal aliens
00:38were deported to El Salvador.
00:40In total, 101 were Venezuelans removed via Title VIII
00:44and 137 were deported through the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
00:49And that's what's been causing a lot of controversy.
00:53This wartime authority gives the president
00:55the power to deport non-citizens
00:57without a judicial hearing
00:58during a period of war or invasion.
01:00The act has only been used three other times
01:02in American history.
01:04This is the first time it's been invoked since World War II.
01:07But the president is justifying its use.
01:11Well, this is a time of war
01:12because Biden allowed millions of people,
01:15many of them criminals,
01:17many of them at the highest level.
01:20They emptied jails out,
01:21other nations emptied their jails into the United States.
01:24That's an invasion.
01:26On Saturday, a federal judge
01:28ordered the Trump administration
01:29to stop removals under the act
01:31to see if its invocation is legal.
01:33And he ordered deportation flights to turn around.
01:36But the White House says the planes
01:38were already outside of U.S. airspace.
01:40So they argue the judge's ruling no longer applied.
01:44White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt
01:46says the administration did not refuse
01:48to comply with a court order.
01:50Leavitt goes on to say federal courts
01:52generally have no jurisdiction
01:54over the president's conduct of foreign affairs,
01:57adding a single judge in a single city
01:59cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrier
02:02full of Aryan alien terrorists
02:04who are physically expelled from U.S. soil.
02:07The temporary restraining order
02:08is in effect for 14 days.
02:10A hearing is scheduled on March 21st.
02:13Lawrence Ainsley and Brian.
02:15All right.
02:16It's incredible.
02:17Thank you so much.
02:17When you look at their rap sheets,
02:18it's hard to believe that some judge was saying,
02:21keep them here in America
02:23because they're alleged gang members
02:25and their rap sheets are long.
02:26These are career criminals that were in America
02:29in this great country of El Salvador.
02:31The president there working hand in hand with Donald Trump
02:33decided they can come here.
02:35And you see in the video,
02:36their heads were being forced down.
02:38They're being transported one by one.
02:39They're getting their heads shaved.
02:41They're walking with their hands behind their necks.
02:44And this is all at a detention center,
02:45the El Salvador Terrorism Confinement Center.
02:48And the president down there says
02:50they will stay for at least a year.
02:51Yet again, I find myself amazed with the Democratic Party
02:54and even some of the members of the media.
02:57They're talking about process again,
02:59and they're not talking about the evildoers
03:01that were in our country
03:01because Joe Biden decided to just unleash the border,
03:05remove all the security barriers that were there
03:07because he didn't like the president that came before him.
03:10And you had 10 million people come into the country.
03:13We didn't vet these people.
03:14And some of these people right here
03:16were the ones that came into the country.
03:17Rapists, murderers, people that committed assault as well.
03:22And so you have this unifying message,
03:2580% of the country, I'm sorry,
03:27over 70% believe that we should have
03:29mass deportation of these people,
03:31yet they defend the actions of these criminals.
03:34So the way I understand it, a couple of days ago,
03:36I think it was Friday,
03:36where the president enacted
03:38the 1798-era Alien Enemies Act.
03:40And he said because of that, he was setting the table
03:42to get rid of TDA, MS-13,
03:45and all these criminal gangs
03:46that have come into our country.
03:48Next thing you know, we have lined up,
03:49I guess, 21 of the most wanted El Salvador MS-13 guys,
03:53250 alien enemy members of TDA.
03:57They were all decided,
03:58because I think Marco Rubio worked this out
04:00with the El Salvadorian president
04:02to open up their prisons.
04:03They cleaned up their country by putting them all in jail.
04:05And they said the ones who came into America
04:07will take them back.
04:08We pay them, but it's gonna save us money
04:10to put El Salvador, keep them in a complete lockup
04:13for at least a year
04:15because we know not have the confidence
04:17that Venezuelan will be able to hold them.
04:19So a judge decides, wait a second,
04:21I don't think you should be able to do the 1798 Act.
04:24Turn the plane around.
04:25No way. Turn the plane around.
04:26No, no, we're already out.
04:28And in turn, Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas
04:31has announced plans to impeach the judge
04:35for trying to assert himself in this process.
04:37And it's James Boasberg.
04:40He wanted a 14-day hold to examine this.
04:42Forget it.
04:43And okay, Democrats, go ahead.
04:45You go stick up for these guys.
04:45You run on this.
04:46You said that Barack Obama-
04:47Tell that to the nunnery family.
04:48This judge is a Barack Obama appointee.
04:51And Donald Trump said, too late.
04:53You decided this.
04:54They're already out of U.S. airspace.
04:56They're flying down to El Salvador now.
04:58The migrants are already out of U.S. airspace
05:00when that judge ordered the planes to return.
05:02And he said the order came too late.
05:0481 illegal aliens also arrested in Kentucky on ICE raids.
05:07So we've kicked out about 37,000 illegal aliens
05:11with criminal backgrounds
05:12and did some type of criminality once they were here.
05:17This is exactly what Trump's trying to do.
05:18I just ask the question, Brian, again,
05:21is this, you see these images of these violent criminals
05:25that were in our country.
05:27Do you guys want to be the party of these folks right here?
05:29Do you want to be the party of defending these folks?
05:33Something has to also be done.
05:34Brandon Gill, he's the youngest Republican in the House,
05:37represents my home state of Texas.
05:40He's offering these articles of impeachment.
05:42I don't think it's unwarranted.
05:43You got these federal judges that are acting like activists
05:48trying to make sweeping measures
05:50for something that the president has the authority to do.
05:54Right, so think about this.
05:55If you're a Lake and Riley's family
05:56and you find out the Democrats and this judge
05:58is saying turn the plane around, bring it back to America,
06:01you know how many crimes that they would have perpetrated
06:03had President Trump not won the election and led the charge
06:07but Tom Holman, the executor of these plans
06:11to get rid of these people right away.
06:13So I just think overall, it's a great message.
06:15This is what they keep telling me.
06:17Kenry Quayle was the first to say it.
06:19It is so valuable to show the world the video
06:23of people being turned around.
06:24Don't just tell me numbers, show people being turned around
06:27because it bridges languages.
06:29They go, it's not worth it to sell my mud hut
06:31and come here with all the money I have
06:34to get into America, I'm staying.
06:38So this morning, hundreds of illegal immigrants,
06:40some would allege gang ties, are no longer in the country.
06:44The Trump administration deported them
06:46to an El Salvador mega prison.
06:48It comes as an Obama-appointed judge
06:50temporarily blocks the president
06:52from using a wartime act for deportations.
06:55White House border czar Tom Holman joins us now.
06:59So Tom, this is a promise made, a promise kept,
07:02but it looks like a judge is trying to stop this.
07:06Why?
07:08I don't know why.
07:09I don't know why any judge would want terrorists
07:12to return to the United States.
07:13I mean, first of all, the video,
07:15what a beautiful thing to see, right?
07:16It's incredible.
07:17Look, the President Trump, by proclamation,
07:22invoked the authorities of the Alien Enemies Act,
07:25which he has a right to do, and it's a game changer.
07:29And we removed over 200 violent criminals
07:32from the United States, just not TDA, but also MS-13.
07:35The actions of President Trump made this country safer.
07:37Every criminal alien, every criminal public safety threat,
07:42and national security threat removed from this country
07:44makes this country safer.
07:45That's what the American voters voted for.
07:47That's their mandate that the President,
07:48the President's keeping his promise.
07:50This President, President Trump's a game changer.
07:52The Alien Enemies Act hasn't been used in a long time.
07:54And when I watched the video and I saw,
07:56and I was involved this week with this whole movement,
07:59this is an extraordinary thing
08:00what the President Trump is doing
08:01to keep his promise to American people
08:02to make this country safe again.
08:05And he's doing a fabulous job.
08:07So, Tom, I look at this judge.
08:10The flights were already in the air
08:12in international waters.
08:14How did the judge get involved?
08:16Did these immigrants that were in the country illegally,
08:21did their lawyers get involved
08:23and make a petition to the judge?
08:25How did this happen?
08:26How did the judge know about the flights being in the air?
08:30Again, information was leaked.
08:33I don't quite know how it got leaked.
08:36But there was a court, emergency court hearing on five,
08:39five people that were on schedule to be deported.
08:43The judge had a written order
08:45that said these five people can't be removed right now.
08:48It wasn't until this flight was already
08:49in international waters heading down to El Salvador
08:53that the judge made some comment about returning the flights.
08:57We're already in international waters.
08:59We're outside the borders of the United States.
09:01I'm the border czar.
09:02Once you're outside the border, it is what it is.
09:04But they're in international waters,
09:06already on the way south, close to the landing.
09:09You know what, we did what we had to do,
09:11remove terrorists, significant public safety threats
09:15from the United States.
09:16By the order of the proclamation
09:18by the President of the United States,
09:19we did the right thing.
09:21Tom, you say that it was five that were on there
09:24where this emergency hearing was coming.
09:26So why is the judge asking
09:27for the entire flight to be returned?
09:31Your guess is as good as mine, Lawrence.
09:32You know, you got some radical judge
09:34who makes the decision.
09:35This can't happen.
09:36That just defies logic.
09:38I mean, who in their right mind,
09:40whether you're a judge or not,
09:42wants known public safety,
09:43TVA, a recognized terrorist organization,
09:46sent here by the Maduro regime to create havoc,
09:50to unsettle the United States
09:52through the use of fentanyl to kill thousands of Americans,
09:54violence to American citizens,
09:56raping and murdering young women in this country.
09:59They are enemies of this country
10:01and President Trump treated them as enemies
10:03and we did exactly what we should have done.
10:06Again, President Trump
10:07is gonna make this country safe again.
10:09He's gonna do it one illegal alien at a time.
10:11And this weekend, we did 261 at a time.
10:15So Tom, what's next?
10:16Because I'm getting a little worried about the manpower.
10:19These guys are, they have to be tired.
10:21You got 30 guys on the stack
10:22going on different busts every single day.
10:25You're gonna run out of money.
10:27It doesn't look like you're getting support
10:28from the Democrats on this.
10:30You're going against the judges now.
10:32What's next?
10:34Another flight.
10:35Another flight every day.
10:37The teams are gonna be out there every day.
10:39Every day, the men and women of ICE
10:41are gonna be in the neighborhoods of this nation
10:43arresting criminal, illegal, alien,
10:46public safety threats and national security threats.
10:48Lawrence, you're not gonna stop us.
10:50We made a promise to the American people.
10:52The President Trump has made a promise to the American people
10:54we're gonna make this country safe again.
10:56I wake up every morning loving my job
10:59because I work for the greatest president
11:00in the history of my life
11:01and we're gonna make this country safe again.
11:03I'm proud to be a part of this administration.
11:05We're not stopping.
11:06I don't care what the judges think.
11:08I don't care what the left thinks.
11:09We're coming.
11:10Yeah.
11:11I just love seeing you going through these protesters
11:14just crunching on the apple as their liberal tears
11:17just flood the hallway.
11:19Tom Holman, thanks so much for joining the program.
11:22I'm Steve Ducey.
11:23I'm Brian Kilmeade.
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