His downplaying of his role in the affair came just hours after a federal judge called Trump's use of the law “incredibly troublesome.”
In a statement at the time, the White House press secretary wrote that Trump “signed a Proclamation Invoking the Alien Enemies Act” and the document additionally appears in the Federal Register with Trump's signature on it.
“Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that,“ Trump said.
At a hearing on Friday, James Boasberg, the chief judge of the US District Court in Washington, questioned the legality of using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to summarily send the Venezuelan migrants to the prison in El Salvador.
He noted that the only previous uses of the AEA were “in the War of 1812, World War I and World War II, when there was no question there was a declaration of war and who the enemy was.”
Last weekend Boasberg issued an emergency order against deportation of the Venezuelans and said two flights already in the air needed to turn around.
The episode earned Trump's ire and the Republican president called on Tuesday for Boasberg’s impeachment, branding the judge a “troublemaker and agitator.”
Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit against the deportations along with other rights groups, noted that even during World War II “people got hearings.”
“You have to be able to contest,“ he said. “Otherwise anyone could be taken off the street.”
Boasberg meanwhile said at Friday’s hearing that “the government’s not being terribly cooperative at this point but I will get to the bottom of whether they violated my order.”
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday before denying signing the proclamation, Trump defended the deportations under the AEA, which was last used during World War II to intern Japanese residents.
The New York Times reported meanwhile that nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security was fired on Friday.
The department's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was responsible for oversight of the administration's efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.
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