(14 Apr 2025)
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Washington – 14 April 2025
1. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller walks toward press
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff:
“To be very clear about this, the Supreme Court ruled that the district court cannot, obviously, compel us to conduct diplomacy or foreign policy with another nation. And so they overturned the district order and they said it very clearly that the district court, it was actually unanimous ruling, overreached in that ruling. I’m not going to reveal any head of state conversations or conversations at the State Department or the lower level, but the important point that we all agree on is that he’s an El Salvadorian. That is his country of nativity and citizenship. He is an illegal alien in the United States. He has no lawful right to be here. He was issued a final order of removal from this country. And so it’s up to El Salvador and to the government and the people of El Salvador what the fate of their own citizens is. We can’t extradite citizens of foreign countries to our country over the objection of those countries. Obviously to do that would be a monstrous violation of international law.”
++WHITE FLASH++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff:
“Once someone’s out of our country, that becomes the problem of their host country, not our country. These people chose to invade us. So there’s a lot of concern from the corporate media about the invaders, but they chose to invade us. It’s our responsibility to return them back to where they came from or another country willing to take them.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday as the small Central American nation becomes a critical linchpin of the U.S. administration’s mass deportation operation.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has called for the administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident and Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears of gang persecution.
Stephen Miller, a top White House aide, signaled on Monday that the U.S. president wouldn’t be asking Bukele to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S.
“It’s up to El Salvador and to the government and the people of El Salvador what the fate of their own citizens is," he said. “We can’t extradite citizens of foreign countries to our country over the objection of those countries.”
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