Press Briefing: Stephen Miller Speaks to Reporters Outside the White House - June 25, 2026

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[In progress] -- said that this country doesn't have a future if the Supreme Court doesn't rule in your favor on the birthright citizenship. If they don't, what action is the administration planning on [Inaudible]

Well, just to, just to clear, what I said was, is that this country doesn't have a future if we don't end birthright citizenship. Obviously, the right and correct way to end birthright citizenship is for the Supreme Court to rule what the 14th Amendment through the correct admittance. But, one way or another, this nation has to end birthright citizenship.

Uh, do you have another question?

So, what actions does the administration then plan on taking next, as well in the asylum [Inaudible] millions of asylum seekers right now who are still waiting for their cases to be heard by federal judges? What is the administration doing to try to move some of those along the process?

Well, I think the most important point is that this administration, on the asylum point, is we've implemented international agreements all over the world to take in our asylum seekers. So, America's doors are closed, fully, to asylum seekers. We've set up agreements where if you want asylum, then we will find a country elsewhere in the world to take you.

It's a very simple, a very elegant, very complete solution. Now, of course, as you know, you've heard me talk about here many times before, all asylum claims across the southwest border are always --

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-- they always involve somebody who is coming from a country where they're not being persecuted based on race, religion, ethnicity, so on, and so forth. Overwhelmingly, right, they're coming from other countries in the Western hemisphere where there's no persecution based on religion, no persecution based on race, et cetera.

In many cases, of course, they also come through dozens of other countries on their way here, where if they wanted asylum they should have sought it first. In every case, they're either criminals, benefit seekers, economic migrants, welfare seekers, et cetera, et cetera. They're coming to join family members, and so forth.

But, the good news for them is that you have other countries willing to take them. Yes.

[Inaudible] The rise of, uh, socialism may not expect [Inaudible], especially in the, uh, northern [Inaudible]

Well --

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Well, we, uh, so first of all, uh, on a humanitarian issue, the most humanitarian thing that we could do is, which is what we are doing and have done, is to end illegal immigration. That is the most humanitarian thing. Every single illegal immigrant who comes to the United States is brought here by a cartel, by a foreign terrorist organization.

Those individuals are often raped, they're often beaten, they're often robbed. They come here, it's a form of indentured servitude. They have to pay off their debts to the cartel after they arrive. And, beyond all of that, their profits that they earn from that human smuggling goes into kidnapping, torture, uh, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, fentanyl.

So, it's a very, this is a very important point. The individuals -- by the way, so let's say you're Mex- -- you're an illegal immigrant from Mexico. You know full well who is smuggling. When you pay them $6,000, you understand those $6,000 are going to one of the evilest organizations on planet Earth. You know that when you do it. And it's a sinful thing, but we're doing the best we can, and have done an extraordinary job under President Trump's leadership.

There has been 13, I believe is the correct number, consecutive months with, maybe it's, maybe it's actually 14 now, but 13 or 14 consecutive months without a single person who is illegal across the Southern border. It's never been achieved.

Mr. Miller --

Yes, back there in the blue jacket.

Mr. Miller, was the killing of the [Inaudible] citizen in Minnesota something of a turning point in this country's immigration policies? Did the tactics change from that moment? Because the president has suggested that they have.

Well, I think what you, I think what you've seen under the leadership of Secretary Mullin is a tremendous focus on achieving results through incredibly efficient mechanisms. So, for example, one of them, one of the things that you've seen in the recent days that has been really extraordinary is President Trump signed an executive order to debank illegal aliens, which is an incredibly effective action to get illegal aliens out of the country.

You've also seen continuing budgetary reforms at ICE to make sure the resources are being allocated as efficiently as possible towards actual enforcement and removal operations, right? Stretching every dollar further. And you've seen with this new ICE legislation that's been passed, and as Tom Bowman has said, he's been here many times, recently, I think in the last couple days, that the new funding has been passed through Congress by reconciliation, will allow deportation numbers to continue to decline, as well as all the legal reforms are being put into place, and that the recent Supreme Court ruling, of course, means that, now, millions of the immigrants from Haiti, who are previously beyond the reach of the law, are now within the reach of the law.

Yes.

Sir, when it comes to deportation, sir, do you expect the administration to deport anyone-

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-- who loses TPS status as a result of this ruling?

Sorry, say it again. There's just a little crossover at the beginning.

No worries. Do you expect the administration to deport anyone who loses TPS status as a result of this ruling?

Well, of course. If you, if you no longer have status in this country, then you're supposed to be deported. In particular, in the case of the Haitians, the Biden administration flew over vast numbers, it's hard to know the exact number, but, you know, probably more than a million illegal immigrants from Haiti, that's not even counting the border crosses into the United States.

So, these are people who've only been here for a few months, who are receiving welfare, whose all their ties, all their social connections, all their family, is back in their home country of Haiti, and, of course, that's where they should go. Yes, [Inaudible]

Does that mean more ICE deployments. Does that mean a- -- more ICE deployments, then?

In light of --

Yeah, sorry, go ahead.

Yeah, in light of the NATO issue and everything else, are you guys still looking at Greenland to get NATO support or, you know, to get access to the Arctic? What's --

The president has been clear about how important it is to the United States. I don't have any updates [Inaudible]. I have time for one more question. Yeah, go ahead, right here.

[Inaudible] consider Haiti a safe country.

For Haitians? Absolutely.

For Haitians?

Yes.

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So, for, I mean, yes, Haitians live in Haiti. It's not our position that Haitians should leave Haiti. I mean, it would be, it'd be crazy for us to say that Haitians couldn't live in Haiti. It's their country. Of course Haitians should live in Haiti. The, there's no viable asylum, or to use a technical term here, cat claim, or withholding claim, for any Haitian seeking relief from going back to Haiti, to their homeland.

The fact that there might be pockets of Haiti where there's higher crime rates, guess what? There's pockets of Chicago with crime rates just as high, right? There's pockets of cities like St. Louis with crime just as high, pockets of Los Angeles, crime just as high. It has never been the case that having communities that have high crime rates is a basis for asylum.

Never has been, never will be. Thank you all. Have a great day.

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