Miller Answers Questions Regarding Immigration Case During Event At White House
In a sharply-worded and unusually lucid appearance on Fox News Sunday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller laid out what he called the clear and lawful rationale for the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—an alleged MS-13 member whose return to El Salvador has sparked a media firestorm.
But according to Miller, that outrage is not only misplaced—it’s rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of how sovereign law, immigration policy, and executive authority actually function.
The segment, co-anchored by Bill Hemmer, quickly became more than just a breakdown of one man’s deportation case. It turned into what can only be described as a legal and constitutional masterclass. Miller forcefully rejected the idea that Garcia’s deportation was an “error,” citing a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court decision that underscored the limits of judicial power over foreign policy—a domain squarely within the president’s Article II authority.
🚨 BOOM! Top Trump advisor Stephen Miller just went BERSERK for 3 minutes straight on Fox over the media narrative that Trump must bring home Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador.
Miller perfectly debunked this ENTIRE claim that Garcia’s deportation was an “error.” This entire… pic.twitter.com/TfGa1VjvpS
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 14, 2025
To recap the facts: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran national alleged to have ties to the notorious MS-13 gang, was in the United States illegally. He was issued a deportation order and sent back to El Salvador.
The controversy arises from the presence of a secondary “withholding of removal” order, which technically should have prevented his return to that country. The administration has conceded that this part of the process was an error—but emphasized that it does not invalidate the deportation, nor compel the U.S. to retrieve him.
The real kicker came when Miller dismantled the notion—floated by a lower court—that the federal government could somehow be required to extract Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, against the will of its government, and forcibly bring him back to the U.S. “That would be kidnapping,” Miller declared, invoking not just legal doctrine but common sense. “An unimaginable act and an invasion of El Salvador’s sovereignty.”
That point—so often overlooked in these debates—is pivotal. El Salvador is a sovereign nation. Its decisions about how to detain or prosecute one of its own citizens are not subject to U.S. judicial review.
Garcia is currently housed in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, and regardless of what he did or didn’t do in the U.S., the United States has no jurisdiction there. As Miller put it bluntly: “His only options in life are to be deported to El Salvador or to be deported to some other country. That’s it.”