United States President Donald Trump minimized his involvement in invoking the 1789 foreign enemies law to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he had not signed the proclamation, even defending the movement of his administration.
“I don’t know when I was signed, because I didn’t sign,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House on Friday.
The president made these comments when asked about the criticism of Judge James Bomberg in court on Friday that the proclamation was “signed in the darkness” of the night.
“We want to get the criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed because I didn’t sign,” Trump said. “Other people dealt with it, but (the secretary of state) Marco Rubio did a great job and he wanted them out and we agreed with it. We want to get the criminals out of our country,” he added.
The proclamation invoking the law of foreign enemies to deport people whom the administration accuses of being affiliated with foreign gangs appears at Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom.
Trump lifted Rubio’s name without being asked by reporters. When they asked him a hypothetical question about whether he would send another deportation flight to El Salvador amid the ongoing dispute, Trump said he would fit Rubio.
“I would say that I would let the Secretary of State deal with it, because I’m not really involved in this, but the concept of taking bad people, killers, rapists, drug traffickers, all of them, these are really bad people out of our country. I competed with it,” said Trump.
THE CNN contacted the White House to comment.
This content was originally published in “I didn’t sign,” says Trump about law used to deport Venezuelans on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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