White House Press Secretary gives press briefing – January 31, 2025 (TGP Photo/Jordan Conradson)
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held a press conference on Friday, where she addressed ICE’s continued efforts to enforce immigration law and deport Biden’s criminal illegal aliens.
Leavitt discussed President Trump’s signing of the Laken Riley Act, a new memorandum designating Guantanamo Bay as a detention center for criminal aliens, and announced new arrests of violent and sexually predatory illegal aliens. The latest arrests by ICE include a Guatemalan convicted of solicitation to meet a child, a Korean convicted of nine counts relating to child pornography, a Mexican charged with attempted murder, possession of a weapon, and assault, and another Mexican convicted of child pornography charges.
“Our message is simple: if you are a criminal illegal alien, you will be arrested and deported,” Leavitt said.
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As the Gateway Pundit reported, several conservative news outlets are now represented in the White House briefing room, including The Gateway Pundit, One America News Network, Real America’s Voice, and Breitbart. Leavitt previously announced that “the Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities, not just the legacy media that’s in this room.”
On Friday, Leavitt responded to this reporter’s question about criminal illegal aliens being protected by state and city officials in Illinois and Maryland.
As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, Democrats in Illinois are preventing ICE officials from detaining illegal aliens who are in local jails and prisons and even trying to allow illegal aliens to change their names to avoid detection by ICE. They would rather house these criminal aliens in jail at the expense of taxpayers and let them out into the street to terrorize law-abiding citizens than admit that they don’t belong in our country.
Illinois Democrats to Allow Illegals to Change Their Names to Evade ICE (VIDEO)
Additionally, it has been reported that the far-left Maryland Attorney General is trying to prevent local law enforcement from cooperating or sharing information with ICE.
Leavitt slammed the corrupt Democrats, saying, “They would be very wise to comply with this administration because this administration is hell-bent on enforcing our nation’s immigration laws, and this administration will continue to arrest, detain, and deport illegal migrant criminals.”
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Conradson: My friend Ben Bergquam reports that the Chicago Mayor and the Illinois Governor are preventing ICE agents from going into jails and prisons to enforce detainers against illegal aliens. In Maryland, the Attorney General has also put out a memo hindering local police cooperation with ICE. Does the administration have any comment on leftist State and local officials defying ICE and Trump’s deportation efforts?
Leavitt: Yeah, I think it’s very interesting that Democrat officials in these cities, who have been completely overrun and overwhelmed by illegal immigrant criminals, would refuse support and help to cure this problem that has especially taken over their cities. I guess they don’t want to admit they’ve been wrong with their sanctuary city policies. I’m not sure. You’ll have to ask them about their intentions, but they would be very wise to comply with this administration because this administration is hell-bent on enforcing our nation’s immigration laws, and this administration will continue to arrest, and detain, and deport illegal migrant criminals. And what we won’t do is defy our nation’s immigration laws, like the previous administration, who had these orders of removal on illegal immigrants across the country and were refusing to execute on them. We will continue to remove illegal criminals from our nation’s interior.
Conradson: Are these sanctuary city leaders violating the law?
Leavitt: I would certainly think so. I’d have to check back on which specific law they’re violating. But certainly, if they’re not enforcing our nation’s immigration law, it sounds like they are breaking the law, and I would also add that their constituents don’t approve of that. You’ve seen residents in Chicago show up at their city council meetings infuriated with their leadership in that city because they are working very hard to provide for their families. They want public safety and law and order, and their officials have abandoned those very basic American principles in these cities, and the American people want law and order. It’s again an overwhelmingly popular policy to deport illegal criminals from our nation’s interior, and this administration will continue to affect that goal.
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