we go to the White House and senior
advisor to the president steven miller
who helped to craft the president's
controversial executive order calling
for more rigorous betting of immigrants
from
then middle eastern countries mr. Miller
welcome good to have you here tonight
it's great to be here thank you so
everybody is anticipating the next roll
out of the next executive order which is
two supposed to clarify some of the
issues that were perhaps wrong with the
first one and then got caught up in the
courts so how is it going to be
different this time
well nothing was wrong with the first
executive order however there was a
flawed judicial ruling that was
erroneous the president recently read
the statute from the immigration
Nationality Act which clearly states he
has the power as president to impose any
restrictions he does necessary when it
in the national interest however because
of the exigency of the situation and
then need to protect our country and
protect our citizens the president is
going to be issuing a new executive
action based off of the judicial ruling
flawed maybe to protect our country and
to keep our people safe and that is
going to be coming very soon
alright grandpa shadows 18 years old but
he wants to know specifically how the
second order is going to be different
well one of the big differences that
you're going to see in the executive
order is that it's going to be
responsive to the judicial ruling which
didn't exist previously and so these are
mostly meinl minor technical differences
fundamentally you're still going to have
the same basic policy outcome for the
country but you're going to respond to a
lot of very technical issues that were
brought up by the court and those will
be addressed but in terms of protecting
the country those those basic policies
are still going to be in effect i want
to broaden the conversation here and not
get lost in all this technical minutiae
here's the reality the United States
admit more people than any other country
on the face of the earth
we've got a serious problem in our
country of terrorism radicalization and
serious problems people joining Isis
joining terror groups joining al Qaeda
and committing or attempt to commit acts
of crime and terror attacks
we have seen a huge connection between
7-8 let me have been here for about it
yeah let me know that because hearing
one of the pop now I know that you think
the order was fine the way it was in
addition initially but courts disagree
in fact forty-eight chords to fish with
it and that's why it's halted right now
as a result of that process that happens
in this country so now you're about to
issue another order and one of the
things that that would need to be
addressed it sounds like is proving that
the seven countries that you have
targeted are indeed the right one to
target and that you have merit and
reason for targeting those specific ones
rather than say Saudi Arabia right well
the the reality is these seven countries
were designated by President Obama and
by congress in 2015 2016 the the reality
is that these seven countries look at
Yemen look at Libya look at serious look
at the conditions in these countries
this is an assessment based on the
threat these countries post closed today
and going into the future
we've had dozens and dozens of terrorism
cases from these seven countries case
after case after case but more
fundamentally it's the position of our
intelligence community that these
countries today pose a threat to our
country moving forward and the president
of acting decisively to protect our
country from these threats and the
rulings from those course were flawed
erroneous and false the president's
actions were clearly legal and
constitutional and consistent with the
long-standing tradition of presidents in
the past to exercise the authority in
the immigration Nationality Act to spend
immigration when it poses a threat to
our security and that's what the
president will do in the next few days
will roll out the detailed proof that
what that action will be and we
understand inside you have a little
delay so I don't mean to be stepping on
you but I do understand that that's your
perspective and that's the White House's
argument and we'll see how that next
really looks one more question to you
from one of our viewers for tonight if
you will
a captain who is a veteran in our
audience this evening is how far is the
administration willing to go to secure
the southern border with the
administration deploy the US military to
do so well right now we have 20,000
fantastic portable agents were doing a
great job but i really want to try and
brought in this conversation and get to
the decor of the issues here whether
we're talking about the new executive
action and in the next few days we will
be able to share the details of what
that will be and how is responsive to
the court's ruling whether we're talking
about the southern border whether we're
talking about a guest-worker program
here's the core issue it is the job of
the president and the job of our
government to protect to protect the
hard-working people this country to
protect their jobs to protect their
wages to protect their communities to
get them safe from terrorism and crime
and drug and waves depression
uncontrolled migration over many years
has undermined wages working prospects
for people of all backgrounds and all
walks of life and it's made us less safe
proper controls will raise wages improve
employment help migrant workers enter
the middle class who are already living
here and keep us safe from the threat of
terror and this president and this
administration is fully committed to
doing what is necessary lawful just visa
and right to take care of and to defend
hard-working patriotic citizen and their
communities that will look very much
forward to that second executive order
and we'll watch the path and I see if it
makes it through the course and that you
know the executive and judicial branch
can can find their way to put this
together
thank you very much even
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