Senior White House Policy Adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News’ “First 100 Days” Tuesday that a revised version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban would “have the same basic policy outcome.”
Miller claimed that the new executive order would be “responsive” to federal court rulings which halted the original order and resolve “a lot of very technical issues that were brought up by the court.”
However, Miller also insisted that the court ruling staying the original order was “flawed” and “erroneous” and that Trump’s action was “clearly legal and constitutional.”
“Here’s the reality,” Miller said. “We’ve got a serious problem in our country of terrorism, radicalization and serious problems of people joining ISIS, joining terror groups, joining Al Qaeda and committing or attempting to commit acts of crime and terror against our nation.”
Miller indicated the revised order would apply to the same seven majority-Muslim countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya — as the previous order.
Miller spoke to host Martha MacCallum at the top of an hour-long immigration town hall in Jacksonville, Fla. hours after Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly directed agency heads to hire thousands more immigration officers, end so-called “catch-and-release” policies and begin work on the president’s promised U.S.-Mexico border wall.
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