Doocy To Leavitt: If You Can't Send Tren De Aragua Members To El Salvador, Where Will They Be Sent?

3/17/2025

At her press briefing, Karoline Leavitt was asked about where Tren de Aragua members would be sent if they can't be sent to El Salvador.

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00:00Peter.

00:01Thank you, Caroline.

00:02If you guys can't send 200 Trinidad and Tobago terrorists at a time to El Salvador, where

00:07are you going to send them instead?

00:09It's a very good question.

00:11You'd have to ask the courts and the people on the left who are trying to fight this administration

00:16for doing the business that this president sought out to do, which is to deport these

00:21foreign terrorists.

00:22And we're very grateful to President Bukele and to El Salvador for accepting these heinous

00:27monsters where they will face justice.

00:29And if these guys are terrorists at war with the United States, is President Trump considering

00:35anything more lethal to address them than just sticking them on a plane somewhere else?

00:40Well, it sounded like you had a little bit of curiosity in the premise of your question,

00:44so I want to address it.

00:45These are designated foreign terrorists.

00:48The president signed a proclamation on February 20th, 2025, designating TDA as a foreign terrorist

00:55organization that was in consultation with the attorney general and the secretary of

01:00treasury.

01:01That was pursuant to 8 U.S. Code 1189.

01:04The president has the right to do that.

01:06And I think nobody would argue that Tren de Aragua should be designated a foreign terrorist

01:11organization.

01:12If you want to have that argument, I'm happy to do it.

01:14These are heinous monsters, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sexual assaulters, predators who

01:20have no right to be in this country, and they must be held accountable.

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Doocy To Leavitt: If You Can't Send Tren De Aragua Members To El Salvador, Where Will They Be Sent?

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