Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, June 3, 2025

June 3, 2025 · The White House · 0:44:17

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What happened

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed members of the media on June 3, 2025, carried on the White House channel, opening with the June 1 attack in Boulder, Colorado. “President Trump and the entire administration’s hearts go out to the victims,” she said, stating that 12 people were injured, including a Holocaust survivor, and that “the Department of Justice has already filed federal hate crime charges against the alleged perpetrator.” Citing the Department of Homeland Security, she said the suspect was an Egyptian national who entered in August 2022 on a B-2 visa, overstayed, filed an asylum claim, and received work authorization under the prior administration, as she stated the case history.

Leavitt then announced the results of ICE’s month-long Massachusetts surge: “ICE and federal law enforcement partners just wrapped up a month-long surge operation arresting nearly 1,500 illegal aliens in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” in an operation dubbed Operation Patriot, adding that more than half of those arrested had significant criminal convictions or pending charges, as she stated the figures. She closed by defending the steel tariffs ahead of the signing planned for that afternoon, saying of the Pittsburgh plant: “If not for this president, that steel plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, would have closed. Those jobs would have been lost,” as she stated the claim.

Why it matters

This briefing is the administration’s Boulder response and its immigration-enforcement case stated together: the attack tied to visa policy in the Press Secretary’s own words, and Operation Patriot’s totals put on the record as the enforcement surge’s report card.

Scoreboard watch

This briefing is a scoreboard reference point: the Operation Patriot figure of nearly 1,500 arrests in Massachusetts and the Boulder prosecution’s progress, each as stated by the Press Secretary, to be checked against the ICE and court records.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, June 3, 2025” (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by the Press Secretary, citing Fox News reporting and the Department of Homeland Security as noted in the briefing.