Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was asked if President Trump will ask El Salvador's president to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
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00:00Is the president going to ask for him to be returned to the United States or not?
00:05Yes or no?
00:06First of all, it's not a question for me to answer.
00:09But I think that the assumption that underlies the question is what needs to be corrected,
00:13which is that there was no mistake that was made.
00:17He was sent.
00:18Let me ask you, what do you think would happen to him if he came back to this country?
00:22As your understanding of immigration laws, what do you think would happen?
00:24But I'm just asking at this point about whether or not the president plans to ask him.
00:30You're asking a lot of questions about this, and you all seem to care about it a lot.
00:32So let's see if any of you have researched anything about this issue at all.
00:36Can anyone here tell me what would happen to the illegal alien from El Salvador if he came back to the United States?
00:41Does anyone here know?
00:43Does anyone want to guess?
00:44Any of you?
00:45He could be with his family.
00:46What?
00:47Does any of you know the answer to the question?
00:49Legally, what would happen if he came back here?
00:51Does any of you know?
00:52Any of you?
00:53Do you really believe the Supreme Court?
00:54I'm talking now.
00:55Do you really believe the Supreme Court doesn't think he should be returned?
00:59Why was it unanimous?
01:00You're done.
01:00Does any of you know the answer to the question?
01:04Does any of you?
01:04You've been talking about it for days.
01:05I'm just going to end it all with deporting again now.
01:07He would be arrested.
01:09He'd be put in confinement.
01:11He would be deported a second time to El Salvador again because there's no withholding order
01:16for an alien who's a member of a foreign terrorist organization, number one.
01:20Number two is the gang that he's a member of doesn't exist in El Salvador anymore.
01:25So what you're asking for is to be deported twice.
01:27But additionally, if we chose to pretend, just pretend that the withholding order was real,
01:34he would be deported to a different country.
01:36So, for example, he could be deported to Egypt.
01:42So I'm just trying to understand, is it your view, in other words, you have to find a country
01:46that would be willing to take a MS-13 member from El Salvador.
01:51So I'm trying to understand from you all this.
01:53So if he came back and under our laws he was then deported to Egypt or to Somalia,
01:59would you then be saying, great, I'm so glad that you deported him to another country?
02:02Is that what you'd all be saying?
02:03Do you understand our immigration laws at all?
02:07But the premise of your question, the gentleman, the return, guys,
02:13do you know the difference between a deportation order and a withholding order?
02:17Do you know the difference?
02:18Any of you, please, do you?
02:22Well, we're not in the government.
02:23So you couldn't even spend 72 hours over the weekend learning the distinction
02:29even though you've been writing and talking about it this whole time?
02:31Stephen, we're not going anywhere on the gold cards.
02:34Just raise your hand.
02:35Does any of you know the difference between a deportation order and a withholding?