other television providers giving you a front-row seat to democracy. >> coming up stephen miller, the white house deputy chief of staff or policy tells reporters that the trump administration is seeking to suspend the right of habeas corpus protecting people from unlawful detentions claiming the administration has the authority to do this during times of invasion. he also welcomed the first flight of white south african refugees to the united states next week. this is just over 10 minutes. >> happy friday. mr. miller: i have a conference

call i need to run to but since you all are graciously gathered here, i'll take a few questions, and i think you also just had like an hour with caroline, so i don't want to step on that too much either. reporter: president trump has talked about potentially suspending habeas corpus to take care of the illegal immigration problem. when will we see that happen? mr. miller: the constitution is clear that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. it is an option we are looking at. a lot of it depends on whether the courts to the right thing or not. at the end of the day that congress passed a body of law known as the immigration and nationality act. congress passed this legislation and passed a number of laws that say that the article three

courts are not even allowed to be involved in immigration cases. many of you probably do not know this. are you familiar with the term -- temporary prints -- temporary protective status? by statute the courts are stripped of jurisdiction from overruling a presidential determination or a secretarial determination on tps when the secretary of homeland security makes that determination. so when secretary noam terminated tps for the illegals that biden flew into the country, when courts stepped in, they were violating explicit language that congress had enacted, saying they have no jurisdiction. so it's not just the courts aren't just at war with the executive branch. the courts are at war, these radical rogue judges with the legislative branch as well too. reporter: to further. deportation of illegal aliens. is the administration considering going after businesses that knowingly employ illegal aliens? mr. miller: they already have.

work site enforcement the exact statistics, but it's multiple 100%. the increase in work site enforcement has been dramatic. it's been immediate, and that will continue. reporter: why is president trump moving to dismiss three democratic members of the consumer product safety? mr. miller: caroline answered this question in the briefing today. the president is the head of the executive branch, and it's the president's prerogative to ensure that all executive branch employees are the best, the brightest, the most committed to fulfilling the agenda that they have, whether it be in their agency or any post in government. the important thing to understand is that we do not let people stay in their jobs because they were always there. we have to examine the performance of specific employees and whether they are doing the best that they can do. as a parent there've been a lot of concerns that high -- that i have had about product safety in this question.

that requires the best people for the job. reporter: [indiscernible] it has been three months and they still haven't gotten down to the 2020 election. they're concerned about the voting situation and they also want to know about what happened to the assassination attempt. mr. miller: those are great questions. the department of justice is working on all three of the things that you just mentioned. hopefully we will have a further update soon. on election integrity, the president signed an executive order was most comprehensive election integrity order that was ever issued. and a district court judge lawless lee intervened and enjoined that requirement. congress passed a law making it a crime, a felony for noncitizens to vote. and yet a judge has enjoined the

executive branch from enforcing and upholding that statutory requirement. the courts, the radical rogue judges don't care about what congress said where the constitution, they are just imposing their own marxist agenda on the whole country. the department of justice is investigating all of the issues that you mentioned. i can assure you that our attorney general, fbi director will all be and we have a new dcr attorney and they will all be diligently working on and ensuring accountability and justice. reporter: tom homan used some colorful language earlier this year to describe how he would be demanding accountability from new york city mayor eric adams if he didn't cooperate with ice. is eric adams holding up his end of the bargain? mr. miller: all i will say to that is this administration is going to pursue immigration

enforcement and cooperation in every city. and anyone who doesn't comply with the laws and dictates of this country will face the appropriate legal consequences. that applies to eric adams and every other mayor in this country. and if obstruction, hindering or harboring occurs in the full range of potential petén -- potential penalties apply to any federal official. i would also say that when it comes to immigration enforcement now that we have achieved the mission of sealing the border, you are going to see more resources and priorities put into the mass deportation program. on a day to day basis, you will see larger numbers of illegal aliens removed from the interior. reporter: can you share with us where the illegal immigrants that will be deported to angola, rwanda and those african nations

are and which conditions they are? mr. miller: we did get illegal aliens during the biden administration from 150 countries. so ice sends planes to every country in the world. we send planes to iraq. we send planes to yemen. we send planes to haiti. we send planes to angola. i mean, ice is sending planes all over the world all the time. anyone who came here illegally, we're finding them and we're getting them out. reporter: looks like we're going to see a lot of port workers and truck drivers displaced by the tariffs. does the administration have any plan for relief? so like what you did? mr. miller: what i would focus on is that we are going to begin enacting -- as you seen a series of historic trade deals. what you will see happening now

because of the president's leadership on tariffs is markets have historically been close. india, japan, south korea and the u.k. and they won't be open to american exports and production. i would also just note that if you look at the statistics, about 90,000 factories in the united states closed since nafta was signed, which is almost unimaginable figure. the media never cared about those workers and their factories that were destroyed. we can all visit the towns now and we know of course the heartbreaking stories, the fentanyl addiction, the breakup of traditional families, the disintegration of whole communities. that was the catastrophe that occurred that president trump is reversing by finally standing up for the american worker. reporter: [indiscernible] mr. miller: that is an exciting new story, isn't it? reporter: [indiscernible]

mr. miller: what is happening in south africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created. this is persecution based on a protected characteristic, in this case race. this is race-based persecution. the refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty, and historically it has been used that way. wherever there's global poverty or wherever there's dysfunctional governments, then the us refugee program in comes in swoops people up, locates , them to america, and you have multi-generational problems that even into the 2nd and 3rd generation you have endemic poverty, you have crime issues, you have integration issues. the us refugee program in america has been a catastrophic failure. i mean, if you look for example at the twin cities area, i mean just in terms of markers of educational outcomes in terms of public safety in terms of welfare use, i mean it's been a complete public policy failure and so this is an example of the

president returning the refugee program to what it was intended to be used as. reporter: is the president having a conversation with you about becoming the national security advisor and would you accept? mr. miller: i'm very thrilled with the job that i currently have, and my focus right now is on supporting secretary rubio. marco and i have become very close friends, especially over the last 100 days, but even before then. and i could not be more excited to work with marco, who is truly one of the all stars of this government, both in his role as secretary of state and his role as national security adviser, and i think the whole country is going to continue to see just how incredible marco is. reporter: what specific evidence the united states have that those south africans have been persecuted? mr. miller: it's state policy.

there's land expropriation. there's a whole series of government laws and policies that target white farmers and the white population in south africa. that's well documented on video and of course you even see government leaders chanting racial epithets and espousing racial violence. that's all very well documented. reporter: [indiscernible] mr. miller: i've not heard that before. reporter: i know you won't get ahead of the president. can you give us a hint? mr. miller: i won't get ahead of the president. reporter: will you be involved with the meeting with mayor adams? mr. miller: i'm not involved in those meetings. reporter: what is the status of the litigation on tariffs? mr. miller: i don't have an update on that. reporter: how many south african refugees? mr. miller: the first flight is

scheduled for early next week. but i don't have an exact update. i don't want to confirm any news reports, but that's just the beginning of what's going to be a much larger scale relocation effort. those numbers will increase as time goes on. it takes a little while to set up the systems and processes and procedures to begin a new refugee flow, but we expect that the pace will increase at a healthy pace. reporter: how many on the first flight? mr. miller: not right now. reporter: [indiscernible] mr. miller: my reaction is there is a judicial coup in this country. the foreigners in this country do not have a right to stay in this country if they support designated terrorist organizations like hamas. hamas is a designated terrorist

organization. the secretary of state has the absolute authority under statute, which again is not judicially reviewable, to revoke an immigration benefit or a visa. and then to pursue a deportation of the department of homeland security. we cannot individually litigate in court every single visa that we want to revoke. this is a plenary authority of the executive branch, and i would just say that look at it what it really comes down to is this. the american people voted for president trump in large part to seal the border deport the , illegals, fix our immigration system so it serves america's interests, and remove the people from this country that we don't want here because they threaten our national security, our public safety, or our economic security. that is what he was elected to do. it is what the constitution empowers him to do. and this judicial coup by a handful of marxist judges to frustrate that effort can only be understood as an attack on democracy. thank you. reporter: -- for a large payout

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