Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to reporters outside the White House.
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00:00I know the Supreme Court has issued that stay, deciding whether he should be sent back to the United States.
00:12Why does the Justice Department believe that he shouldn't be?
00:15Well, first of all, it was an administrative error as to why he was deported.
00:22And he is a known gang member.
00:25I testified he was a gang member.
00:27And we believe he should stay.
00:29And where he is.
00:31You know, the defense had argued that he was a journeyman, that he was training to be an electrician.
00:40While the last gang member we arrested, who was a violent murderer, was also hanging wallpaper in a place called The Villages in Florida.
00:49One of the biggest retirement places in our country.
00:52So these people are living among us.
00:53One of the big cases we had, I think you're very aware of, half an hour from where we're standing, was another violent gang member living right among us in a very, very nice residential neighborhood.
01:05Wreaths on the door next door to him.
01:07Children's bicycles.
01:08So that's what these gangs do.
01:10They infiltrate our country and they live among us.
01:13So to say that he was training to be an electrician does not legitimize him from being a violent gang member.
01:19And we will continue to fight for the safety of Americans and get these people out of our country to make America safe.
01:27Every victim of crime deserves to be safe.
01:30And these families who have lost loved ones to these, they are foreign adversaries.
01:34They are terrorists.
01:35And they are living among us no longer.
01:37And especially after that ruling yesterday.
01:40They better start self-deporting because we're coming after them.
01:42Two quick questions, if we can, let's ask you about the ruling yesterday, which is from the Supreme Court.
01:46Obviously, it allows you to move forward with using the Alien Enemies Act to deport these alleged gang members and others here.
01:53It says they're entitled to due process, though, as well.
01:55Your take on the ruling and what does it mean for your ability to deport them?
01:59Yeah, sure, Peter.
02:00What the ruling says is, as from yesterday forward, what we can do is we can still deport, but they are entitled to habeas.
02:08In the court of confinement, which means all of these cases will go through Texas.
02:13There will be no more class actions.
02:15It will be two questions asked.
02:17Do you qualify under Alien Enemies, and are you a violent gang member?
02:21Are you a member of TDA?
02:22That's what will be asked.
02:23Let me ask you about the DHS.
02:25The administration broadly has revoked the legal status of those individuals who came in from south of the border through the CBP app that was produced by the former administration.
02:35So those individuals who followed the rules as they existed at the time, be forced to leave the country now.
02:43Well, Peter, the rules at the time weren't fair.
02:46The rules were dangerous to Americans.
02:47I went to the border in September.
02:49I was in Yuma, Arizona, and I saw piles and piles of driver's license, IDs, passports from every country you can imagine thrown at the gate.
02:58They were handed cell phones, the CBP app, what you were discussing.
03:02They could come in, get on a phone, enter the country.
03:06If they didn't have ID, then they could identify that they were from any country they chose to be from.
03:12A Border Patrol agent told me Venezuelan men were coming in saying they were from China.
03:18Chinese people were coming in saying they were from any country, Ireland, any country they wanted to identify that they were from.
03:26And they were walking right into our country.
03:29So we have to look at all those cases because that's the safety and concern for our citizens.
03:34One other thing at the border is if you were a family, it made it much easier to come into the country.
03:39I learned a new term while I was at that border, and that was called a disposable child.
03:44Border Patrol agents were seeing children, the same child, coming in time and time again.
03:50A little boy they recognized over and over coming into our country, and they couldn't figure out why.
03:56That child had been trafficked, and he was posing as a family member.
04:01They had kidnapped a child, and when they recognized him multiple times, they realized he wasn't part of that family.
04:08So what was happening at that border was dangerous.
04:11I went to a rape crisis center.
04:13Nothing at that border was humane, and nothing protected American citizens, nor many of the people coming through it.
04:19Because I firmly believe many of those women and children were trafficked.
04:22Attorney General, 60 Minutes found that 75% of the immigrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have public criminal records.
04:33Is that true?
04:34Do you mean in our country?
04:36The Venezuelan migrants who were sent to El Salvador.
04:39Okay, well, they're not Venezuelan migrants.
04:41They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country, who are committing the most violent crimes.
04:48So if you committed a murder in our country, we're going to keep you here, and we're going to seek the death penalty,
04:53and we're going to keep you in prison because our victims' families deserve that.
04:56But we don't have to charge them with every crime.
04:59We can deport them and get them out of our country and save room in our prisons
05:04because they should have never been in our country to begin with.
05:07So you confirmed they didn't commit a crime, right?
05:10Is that what you're...
05:11You mean in prison, you're going to commit a crime when medications?
05:18So you can do that.
05:20You know, there's a crime on that side to those who are pizza.
05:22And there's a crime on that side of the Lord.
05:29There's a crime on that The Punk.
05:30New Inspå…ˆ
05:32with the enemy, quote,
05:33A crime on this line no one is allowed to commit a crime, right?