In response, the White House released a statement on Wednesday saying that illegal immigrant killers and rapists "aren’t scholars — they’re criminals."
"In a strong contender for dumbest statement of the year, disgraced ‘filmmaker’ Michael Moore lamented illegal immigrant criminals being apprehended because they might’ve ‘discovered the cure for cancer’ or ‘stopped that astroid [sic],’" the White House statement said. "The only thing more foolish than that statement are the politicians who oppose the deportations."
The statement included a listing of some of the worst criminal illegal immigrants arrested thus far. The list included nine child sex predators and rapists as well as kidnappers, murderers and gang members.
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"Michael Moore is free to visit the quantum computing and particle physics labs that MS-13, TDA [Tren de Aragua], and the cartels are now going to have to set up back home in El Salvador, Venezuela, and Mexico," quipped White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai.
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In the meantime, Desai said, "the Trump administration will remain focused on putting our own citizens first by mass deporting illegal migrant rapists, murderers, and other criminals out of American communities."
Fox News Digital reached out to Moore for comment but did not hear back by publication time.
Fox News Digital writers Adam Shaw and Alexander Hall contributed to this report.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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