Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy challenged President Donald Trump over his claim that alleged Tren De Aragua gang members are foreign terrorists by asking why they aren’t being shot on sight like an ISIS terrorist would be.

Last weekend, Trump signed what the White House described as a “Proclamation Invoking the Alien Enemies Act regarding the Invasion of the United States by the Foreign Terrorist Organization Tren De Aragua,” which was used as the rationale for deportation flights that were halted by federal District Court Judge James Boasberg.

The Trump administration has not offered hard evidence establishing that all of the migrants on these flights were actually gang members. One man was deported over a soccer team logo tattoo.

Doocy pressed Trump on the issue as the president took questions during an Oval Office photo op and news conference with a clever question challenging the premise of the proclamation.

He noted that if ISIS terrorists were operating in the U.S., police “would probably be shooting first and asking questions later.”

Doocy then asked Trump “What is the difference between terrorists, between somebody like an ISIS or an Al Qaeda operative versus MS-13 or Tren De Aragua?”

Trump gave a lengthy response that thoroughly skirted the premise of Doocy’s question and overestimated his popular vote total by millions:

PETER DOOCY: And on something else, these Tren De Aragua guys, because of your executive order, they are designated as foreign terrorists.

If ISIS or Al Qaeda foreign terrorists were operating here in the United States, cops would probably be shooting first and asking questions later.

And so what is the difference between terrorists, between somebody like an ISIS or an Al Qaeda operative versus MS-13 or Tren De Aragua?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, these are people that focus on destroying people in their homes. They’re not as international in that sense.

They’re a group of thugs. They come from Venezuela. They come from the prisons of Venezuela. They’re very, very dangerous people.

But they didn’t look so dangerous when the guards took care of the situation from El Salvador. And I want to thank the President. He’s a friend of mine. He’s done a great job.

I just can’t imagine that the Democrats are taking this issue where they want to have them back. You know? So now they have men playing in women’s sports, they have transgender for everyone, they have open borders, they have all of their crazy policies that are, I think, 95-5, not 90-10, okay?

And their new policy is, let’s bring Tren De Aragua back into our country. Let’s bring the worsties or the worst gang members there are.

They looked amazingly frail, though by the way, they were handled. It’s very amazing.

You know, they weren’t, when they were in Colorado, cutting the fingers off a man because he made a phone call to the police. They seemed a lot tougher then than they did when they were having their head shaved and they were in shackles.

They’re tough people. They’re bad people. We don’t want them in our country. We can’t let a judge say that he wants them. You know, he didn’t run for president. He didn’t get much more than 80 million votes. And we just can’t let that happen.

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