White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said on Newsmax Tuesday that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is “wrong for a lot of reasons” when it comes to immigration enforcement and that the Supreme Court has upheld President Donald Trump’s right to enforce the United States’ immigration laws.
“It’s President Trump who is standing on the side of law-abiding citizens of Los Angeles and, really, all Americans,” Kelly told “National Report.” “Let’s remember, this president was given a mandate to conduct the largest deportation of migrant criminals in history, and that is exactly what he is doing in Los Angeles, by … taking some of these criminals, these rapists, murderers, off of the streets of Los Angeles and ultimately making the entire city safer.
“As you mentioned, the Supreme Court affirmed what we have said all along: The president has the right to conduct his immigration policy and lower courts, unfortunately, along the way, were trying to usurp the president’s authority to carry out his immigration agenda,” she said.
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