Stephen Miller crushes CNN's Kasie Hunt on law, making her regret flapping her gums



An Obama judge blocked the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on Saturday. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg was, however, not fast enough with his verbal order to stop the departure of two planes full of alleged Tren de Aragua and MS-13 terrorists.

Critics in and outside the liberal media were quick to accuse the Trump administration of flouting the judge's order to halt or turn around the planes full of deportees, with some suggesting this supposed defiance was the beginning of a "true constitutional crisis."

CNN's Kasie Hunt, among those who apparently embraced this narrative, debated Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, on Monday about presidential and judicial authority, specifically on whether Boasberg's order was "patently unlawful." The engagement did not go well for the liberal talking head.

Background

President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on Saturday, proclaiming that all Venezuelan citizens "14 years of age or older who are members of TdA, are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies."

Democracy Forward and the American Civil Liberties Union quickly filed a lawsuit on behalf of several illegal aliens in an effort to prevent the president from utilizing a law that the generation that drafted the Constitution passed.

"The Trump administration’s intent to use a wartime authority for immigration enforcement is as unprecedented as it is lawless," stated Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrant Rights Project.

Boasberg obliged the leftist groups, issuing an order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from executing deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. Two planes loaded with apparent Tren de Aragua and MS-13 terrorists were, however, already airborne. Boasberg impotently ordered that the planes be redirected to the United States. They both successfully reached their destinations.

The White House press secretary later indicated that the "terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory," and the Obama judge's order was unlawful anyway, as "federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President's conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion."

Miller agreed, stating, "The actions of the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Defense were not in conflict with the judge's order. But at the same time, it is also true that the judge's order was patently unlawful. Beyond unlawful, it was an outrageous assault on the Constitution, an outrageous assault on the sovereignty of the nation and on democracy itself."

'Wrong. Look up the statute.'

At the outset of the interview on Monday, Hunt used Miller's previous suggestion that Boasberg's order was "patently unlawful" as a springboard for the following questions: "Does that mean that the administration is ignoring this order? And might you ignore future court orders that meet the criteria you laid out?"

Miller did not take the bait. Instead, he provided the CNN talking head with a lesson about separation of powers and the limits that even activist federal judges face.

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"The president of the United States and his administration reserve all rights under the Constitution to conduct national security operations in defense of the United States. The Alien Enemies Act, which was passed into law by the founding generation of this country, men like John Adams, was written explicitly to give the president the authority to repel an alien invasion of the United States," said Miller.

'Does a district court judge have the right to direct or enjoin troop movements overseas?'

"That is not something that a district court judge has any authority whatsoever to interfere with, to enjoin, to restrict, or to restrain any way. You can read the law yourself," continued Miller. "There's not one clause in that law that makes it subject to judicial review, let alone district court review."

Hunt countered with the suggestion that "this is how our system works — it starts with these judges," Miller explained the legal term "justiciable," which references whether a case is capable of being decided by a court.

Miller suggested that Trump's exercise of Article II powers to defend the homeland against an invasion or to combat a foreign terrorist threat inside the country as commander in chief is not a matter with which some lesser court can interfere.

"You talk about how the system works," said Miller. "Does a district court judge have the right to direct or enjoin troop movements overseas? Yes or no?"

The flustered talking head desperately tried to avoid answering the question, responding with staccato cadence, "Well, Stephen — my question, I — if you can answer my question first. Is Venezuela — is Venezuela invading our country in a way that would apply this way?"

Miller was more than happy to answer Hunt's question, which spoke to the criteria for an Alien Enemies Act invocation.

After indicating that Tren de Aragua qualifies as an alien enemy force under the 18th-century law, Miller returned to the issue of separation of powers and presidential authority, reiterating that Trump, not some district court judge, identifies and takes action against an alien enemy force under the law.

Evidently immune to humiliation, Hunt kept pressing the issue, suggesting that the Alien Enemies Act requires a declaration of war against a nation or a state, prompting another correction from her guest: "No. Wrong. Look up the statute."

"The statute delineates three criteria for triggering the Alien Enemies Act," continued Miller. "One is an act of war, which, by the way, an invasion is an act of war. But put that aside. One is an invasion, which this is. One is a predatory incursion, which this is. So it actually meets all three statutory criteria. But with respect to this particular statute ... the proclamation is utilizing the incursion and invasion language in the statute."

When finally Hunt appeared to be looking for the thematic exit, Miller provided the CNN talking head with a summary of why he regards Boasberg's order as "patently unlawful," noting, "A district court judge can no more enjoin the expulsion of foreign terrorists to foreign soil than he can direct the movement of Air Force One, than he can direct the movement of an aircraft carrier, than he can direct Marco Rubio to engage in diplomacy or a country."

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‘He’s not going to play around’: How Trump NEEDS to eliminate the cartels



The New York Times has recently released a piece arguing that if President Donald Trump puts a halt to the Mexican drug cartels, it could hurt the American economy.

Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” is now questioning the newspaper’s sanity.

“The New York Times has a concern about the economic impact of Trump’s plan to identify and hold the cartels responsible,” Glenn says, adding, “If you’re in that business, you probably aren’t using a bank.”

However, regardless of what the New York Times believes, Trump is coming for the cartels — and Glenn has an idea of how he should do it.


“He would assign people to make a list of who those terrorists are,” he explains. “Then they’ll give it to the president, and they’ll say, ‘Here’s the case against these guys and this cartel and many other cartels’ and the president will say, ‘What do you recommend?’”

“And they’ll say, ‘We go in at night with our night vision and we kill them all,’ and he says, ‘OK,’ and so then we go in at night, and we kill them all. And in the morning, everybody wakes up surprised ‘cause they’re dead,” Glenn says.

“He’s not going to play around. You are going to see death and destruction of these cartels,” he continues. “He is very clear, ‘I am going to kill the cartels because they’re terrorist operations, and they’re operating here in the United States and causing a lot of pain and suffering, and so I’m going to kill them all.’”

“I mean, he’s designated them terrorist groups,” Stu Burguiere chimes in. “We know what has happened with, you know, Al-Qaeda or whatever. When he designates a terrorist group, it gives us what we consider, and other countries don’t, the legal authority to go in and do these types of things.”

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New Orleans terrorist attack EXPOSES feminine leadership



New Year's Eve is a time for celebration, but unfortunately for those who gathered in New Orleans to do just that, their excitement quickly turned into horror when a crazed man drove his car through a crowd on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter.

At least 14 people were killed in the terrorist attack.

Now, the people of New Orleans need strong leadership in the wake of this atrocity, but Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” does not believe they’re getting it.

“When I watched the press conference and saw LaToya Cantrell, I can’t say she inspired a lot of confidence, and neither did the police superintendent, Anne Kirkpatrick,” Whitlock says, adding that Kirkpatrick is a “granny.”

“She’s 64 years old, she grew up in Memphis, she did her postgraduate work in the Pacific Northwest, she was hired as a cop in Oakland, was a finalist to be the top cop in Chicago before she, at age 64, landed the job to oversee the New Orleans Police Department,” Whitlock explains.


However, just six months ago, Kirkpatrick struck two pedestrians with a police vehicle.

Kirkpatrick was joined by Alethea Duncan, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI New Orleans field office, at the press conference that followed the New Year’s Eve terrorist attack.

“Her claim to fame during this press conference was, the guy has an ISIS flag on his car, and she took to the podium, or took the microphone, and said, ‘This is not a terrorist attack.’ And everybody else is like, ‘Uh, yeah, this is a terrorist attack,’” Whitlock says.

The one thing all these leaders have in common is that they are women — and Whitlock believes that’s the first issue with their response.

“Look, I know many of you dislike me because you think I'm a sexist pig. I’m not a sexist pig; I’m just someone that believes in male leadership because male leadership actually works, and it’s how God designed,” he explains.

“And so anybody that watched these events in New Orleans and saw these three women take the microphone, you weren’t filled with confidence. ... If you were honest with yourself,” he continues, “you weren’t impressed.”

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Whistleblower: Kamala SILENCED the truth about terrorist border crossers



Aaron Heitke is a former chief Border Patrol agent at U.S. Customs and Border Protection — and he’s just testified before Congress that the Biden-Harris administration ordered the government to conceal the true nature of the illegal immigration crisis.

“In San Diego, we had an exponential increase in significant interest aliens. These are aliens with significant ties to terrorism,” Heitke told Congress.

“Prior to this administration, the San Diego sector averaged 10 to 15 SIA arrests per year. Once word was out the border was far easier to cross, San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, well over that in 2023, and even more than that registered this year. These are only the ones we caught,” Heitke explained.

Heitke also revealed that he was told he “could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests.”

“The administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border,” he added.

Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” is disturbed.

“You heard that statistic? Ten times as many illegal border crossers who have ties to terrorism under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden compared to President Trump. Ten times as many. And Kamala Harris tried to shut him up, told him he couldn’t talk about it,” Wheeler comments.

“Kamala Harris didn’t want the public, you and I, to know,” she adds.


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Former Border Patrol sector chief: Biden-Harris admin covered up rise in terrorism-linked migrants



Aaron Heitke, the recently retired chief Border Patrol agent for the San Diego sector, told members of the House Homeland Security Committee Wednesday that the Biden-Harris administration concealed information about illegal aliens with terrorism ties from the American public as part of its effort to "quiet the border-wide crisis."

"The administration was trying to convince the public that there was no threat at the border," Heitke testified, noting that this was the farthest thing from the truth.

In his opening statements, the former sector chief, who has served through five different administrations, remarked upon the flood of illegal aliens that occurred after President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took power and has been sustained in the years since.

Heitke indicated that the Biden-Harris administration immediately decreased the amount of detention space available and ordered the sectors to "take in and process all the illegal aliens encountered on the border."

Foreign nationals caught on quickly, realizing that this meant the Biden-Harris administration would set them loose in the American homeland.

""The fact that so many illegal aliens are being released into the United States spread worldwide very quickly," said Heitke, adding that Border Patrol was soon inundated with hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens keen to turn themselves in — many of whom were apparently flown to Texas.

According to the former sector chief, the immediate consequence of this surge was that 60%-90% and sometimes all of the agents on duty were pulled away from the border, leaving it virtually unguarded, such that "Border Patrol zones across Texas, Arizona, and California had no agent presence for weeks and months at a time."

As a result, those illegal aliens who didn't want to bother turning themselves in with millions of others could simply walk into the U.S., said Heitke, emphasizing, "We have no idea who and what entered our country over this time."

This alone was enough to jeopardize American security — as Patty Morin, mother of Rachel Morin, revealed in her testimony to the committee.

'They are allowing them into our smallest towns, and our people are dying.'

Rachel Morin was a Maryland mother of five who was brutally raped and murdered last year. Her suspected killer, who was arrested in June, is an El Salvadoran who illegally entered the U.S. in February 2023.

Following Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez's arrest, Harford County Sheriff Jeffery Gahler revealed that the suspect had fled to the U.S. after murdering a young woman the previous month. Just weeks after jumping the border, he savagely attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother during a home invasion in Los Angeles.

Patty Morin told the committee, "They say that the borders are safe. We live 1,800 miles away from the southern border. They're not safe. They're not safe. Do you have a sanctuary city in your state? You're not safe."

"They are bringing criminals into our country. They are allowing them into our smallest towns, and our people are dying," added Morin.

Heitke noted that at the same time that illegal aliens like Martinez-Hernandez were stealing into the country, "simultaneously, in San Diego we had an exponential increase in Significant Interest Aliens. These are aliens with significant ties to terrorism."

During the Trump years, Heitke indicated that the San Diego sector averaged 10-15 SIAs per year. This number skyrocketed under the Democratic administration.

"Once word was out that the border was far easier to cross, San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, way over 100 SIAs in 2023, and more than that this year. These are only the ones we caught," said Heitke.

It's unclear how many of the millions of "gotaways" who have stolen into the country while Harris was border czar have ties to terrorists or are themselves terrorists.

"At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests. The administration was trying to convince the public that there was no threat at the border."

Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-N.Y.) asked the former sector chief what is known about the gotaways who have entered the U.S.

When Heitke responded, "None," D'Esposito said, "Zero information of millions of people — some of which have been found to be on the terror watch list — we have zero information?"

"Correct," answered Heitke.


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