‘We Are Not A Travel Booking Agency’: Stephen Miller Scolds Reporter Over Abrego-Garcia Deportation

Stephen Miller laid into reporters outside the White House over criticisms of the Trump administration’s plan to deport illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia to Uganda.

Miller pointed out the fact that the it was not the federal government’s job to give illegal aliens a choice in the matter — and that Salvadoran national Abrego-Garcia had objected to being returned to his own home country, El Salvador.

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.@StephenM on attempts to deport gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda: “We’re not a travel booking agency. It’s not our job to say to illegal alien terrorists, ‘pick your favorite destination in the world and we’ll send you a charter a jet there.'” pic.twitter.com/tPHbn71wi4

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“As to the point about Uganda, you just have to marvel at this,” Miller began. “The same leftwing NGO’s who tell us that we should open our borders to all the poor countries of the world also tell us that it would be unfair, improper, to have anybody live in those countries.”

“Well, if those countries don’t have good systems of law and good systems of governance, then why would we want to have open migration from those countries?” he asked. “These two propositions are in complete conflict, but more fundamentally, remember, Garcia has said he does not want to go back home to El Salvador. That’s what he said.”

Miller went on to say that Uganda had been chosen because the United States had reached an agreement with the African nation to help resettle people who were being deported from the country — and that it wasn’t going to be up to the illegal alien in question to choose a “favorite destination” on the backs of American taxpayers.

“We’re not a travel booking agency. It’s not our job to say to illegal alien terrorists, ‘Pick your favorite destination in the world and we’ll send you a charter a jet there,'” he said.