The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, defended the deportation of three children who are US citizens, claiming that mothers could have made their children stay.

“Those children are American citizens,” Rubio said in the “Meet The Press” Sunday episode. “They can return to the United States if their father or someone here who wants to assume them. But ultimately, who was deported was their mothers, who were illegally. The children have just left with their mothers.”

According to the Washington Post, the three children were of two different families, of 2, 4 and 7 years, and deported early Friday. Their lawyers said that “both families were arrested while attending routine records this week in New Orleans as part of the intensive supervision appearance program, which allows people to remain in their communities while submitting immigration procedures.” They were then taken to Alexandria, Louisiana, three hours by car from New Orleans, and put a flight to Honduras, all while avoiding any communication with any member of their families.

When asked to “meet with the press” about such deportations that violate the rights of due process of citizens and non -citizens, Rubio bordered the question and said: “If someone is in this country illegally, illegally, that person is deported.”

The Secretary of State for the United States, Marco Rubio, defended the deportation of three American citizen children and said
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, defended the deportation of three American citizen children and said: “Ultimately, who was deported was their mothers, who were illegally here. The children have just left with their mothers.”

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Tom Homan, the border tsar of President Donald Trump and the former interim director of the application of immigration and customs of the United States, said on Sunday “Face the Nation” that the children were not deported, but the “mother chose to take children with her.”

“When you enter the country illegally, and you know that you are illegally and choose to have an American citizen son, that depends on you,” said Homan. “That is not in this administration. If you choose to put your family in that position, that is in them. But having an American citizen child after entering this country is illegally not a free prison card. That does not make it immune to our laws.”

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Gracie Willis, of the National Immigration Project, told News that mothers did not even have the opportunity to decide if they wanted their children to stay in the United States.

“We have no idea what Ice was telling them, and in this case what has come to light is that the ice did not give them another alternative,” said Willis. “They did not give them an option, that these mothers only had the option of taking their children with them even though beloved caregivers are available in the United States to keep them here.”