Karoline Leavitt Fires Back At Fox News Contributor Over Criticism Of Alien Enemies Act Usage

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At a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about criticism from Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy.

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00:00On TDA, Andy McCarthy said in an interview with Hugh Hewitt, he certainly agrees with

00:06what the President is trying to do with the Alien Enemies Act, but he's not sure that

00:09the law is completely on his side.

00:12He cites some previous Supreme Court rulings dealing with enemy combatants in wartime,

00:17says that even they have a right to challenge their detention in court.

00:21He raised concern also that while TDA has been designated as a terrorist organization,

00:26these individuals hadn't been prosecuted for terrorism.

00:30So my question is, will the President ask Congress potentially to declare war on these

00:37cartels for the invasion that he's talked about so that he's on stronger legal footing?

00:40Well, we absolutely disagree with the legal opinion of the individual that you mentioned.

00:45We would not have moved forward with this if we didn't believe the President.

00:48This was within the President's executive authority to continue with this mass deportation

00:53effort under the authority provided to him under the Alien Enemies Act.

00:58And when you read the act, as I did last time at the podium, a predatory incursion is absolutely

01:03what has happened with Trinidad and Tobago.

01:05They have been sent here by the hostile Maduro regime in Venezuela, and the President immediately

01:10upon taking office designated TDA as a foreign terrorist organization.

01:15And under this act, it is within the President's authority to deport these terrorists.

01:19And anybody trying to defend these terrorists who have now been sent off of American soil

01:25should talk to the families of the individuals who these heinous monsters have killed and

01:30have raped.

01:31If you talk to those families, they are so heartened by the President's decision to take

01:36tough action and to use his executive authority, something that no other President has been

01:40willing to do, because President Trump does what he says he's going to do, and he is deporting

01:44these foreign terrorists from American soil to secure our homeland, and he's within his

01:48rights to do that.

01:49Jennifer.

Karoline Leavitt Fires Back At Fox News Contributor Over Criticism Of Alien Enemies Act Usage

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