Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the recent deportation of U.S.-born children to illegal immigrant mothers on NBC News’s Meet the Press on Sunday.
Three children from at least two different families were deported with their mothers this last week. Rubio took issue with the reporting on their cases.
“On the headline, that’s a misleading headline. Three U.S. citizens, ages four, seven, and two were not deported. Their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers,” Rubio said. “You guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the two-year-old and threw them on an airplane. That’s misleading. That’s just not true.”
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Rubio made it clear that these children still have the opportunity to “come back to their father or someone who wants to assume them.”
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