'Extremely detached from reality': Trump ally ripped for contradicting DOJ during Fox News interview
Stephen Miller at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland (Consolidated News Photos/Shutterstock.com)
Defenders of Kilmar Brego Garcia, the Salvadoran man and Maryland resident wrongly deported to El Salvador, are demanding that he be released from a maximum-security prison in that country — as he had no involvement with the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. Some allies of President Donald Trump are alleging that Garcia was involved with El Salvador's M3-13 gang, but defenders are countering that in fact, he feared MS-13 and made a concerted effort to avoid them.
Moreover, human rights activists warn, Garcia was deported without due process.
Trump ally Stephen Miller, however, is defending the deportation. During a Monday, April 14 appearance on Fox News, Miller argued that removing Garcia from that prison would be a violation of El Salvador's sovereignty — an argument that Miller later doubled down on during a White House meeting that including visiting Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others in the Trump Administration.
"He is a citizen of El Salvador," Miller stressed during the White House meeting.
Miller's comments during the Fox News interview are receiving a plenty of reactions on X, formerly Twitter.
Journalist Aaron Rupar tweeted, "Stephen Miller claims on Fox News that returning the Maryland father who was wrongly deported to El Salvador would constitute a 'kidnapping' and 'invasion of El Salvador's sovereignty.' 'He was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador,' Miller lies. 'This was the right person sent to the right place.'"
Politico's Kyle Cheney posted, "Miller contradicts both DOJ and ICE by suggesting Kilmar Brego Garcia was sent to the right place. Multiple officials from both agencies have acknowledged the deportation to El Salvador was erroneous in sworn declarations to the courts."
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Civil rights lawyer Patrick Jaicomo noted that even the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledges that Garcia's deportation was a mistake.
Jaicomo tweeted an April 10 Supreme Court document saying that Garcia's "removal to El Salvador was….. illegal." And he commented, "The U.S. Solicitor General told the Supreme Court it was a mistake for goodness sake!"
X user Anna Baxter also referenced the High Court's ruling and tweeted, "How is this facilitating the return of a guy the admin admitted was wrongfully deported? It wasn't a divided SCOTUS ruling, it was 9-0! Very rare with this court. Miller’s in need of anger management!"
Another X user Timothy Bellman tweeted, "It just goes to show that the world Stephen Miller lives in is completely fictional and extremely detached from reality."
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