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White House defends travel ban as provocations mount
JILL COLVIN the table,” including a
Associated Press Supreme Court appeal.
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Trump said on the plane
A top White House aide ride to Florida on Friday
renewed support for Presi- that he was considering
dent Donald Trump’s em- signing a “brand new or-
battled immigration order der” as early as Monday
and praised a surge in de- to try to bypass the legal
portations Sunday, as the challenges.
new president faces a new “As you know, we have
provocation in the form of multiple options, and
an apparent missile test by we are considering all of
North Korea. them,” Miller said on ABC’s
The White House contin- “This Week.”
ues to weigh its options The comments come amid
following a legal blow last an outcry from immigration
week to Trump’s immigra- activists over an “enforce-
tion order suspending the ment surge” by Immigra-
nation’s refugee program tion and Customs Enforce-
and barring citizens of sev- ment officers that officials
en Muslim-majority coun- say is targeting immigrants
tries from entering the U.S. who are in the country il-
Stephen Miller, Trump’s legally and have criminal
chief policy adviser and Kellyanne Conway, left, and Stephen Miller, both senior advisers to President Donald Trump, walk records.
one of the architects of to a news conference at the White House in Washington. Advocacy groups con-
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
tend the government has
the order, maintained in a rounded up large num-
round of Sunday show in- bers of people as part of
terviews that the president stepped-up enforcement.
has sweeping executive The agency calls the effort
authority when it comes no different from enforce-
to barring foreigners he ment actions carried out in
deems pose a risk to the the past.
country. He said Trump will But Trump and Miller ap-
do “whatever we need peared eager to take
to do, consistent with the credit for the action.
law, to keep this country “The crackdown on ille-
safe” and slammed judges gal criminals is merely the
who’ve stood in his way. keeping of my campaign
“This is a judicial usurpation promise. Gang members,
of the power. It is a viola- drug dealers & others are
tion of judges’ proper roles being removed!” Trump
in litigating disputes. We tweeted.
will fight it,” Miller said in Added Miller on NBC’s
an interview on “Fox News “Meet the Press”: “We’re
Sunday.” going to focus on public
As for the administration’s safety and saving Ameri-
next steps, Miller said that can lives and we will not
“all options” remain on apologize.”q
