Secretary of State Marco Rubio disputed alleged “misleading” reorts Sunday about three U.S. citizen children boarding deportation flights.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported the illegal immigrant mothers of U.S. citizen children ages 7, 4 and 2, sparking outrage among pro-immigration and anti-Trump activists. Rubio told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker that the administration deported the mothers who entered the U.S. illegally from Honduras, and not the children.
“On the headline, that’s a misleading headline,” Rubio said. “Three U.S. citizens ages 4, 7 and 2 were not deported. Their mothers who were illegally in this country were deported. The children went with their mothers. The children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States if their father, or someone here, wants to assume them. But, ultimately who was deported was their mothers who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers. It’s not like, you guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the 2-year-old and threw him on an airplane. That’s misleading. That’s just not true.”
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Several outlets, including The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The Guardian and NPR all published headlines stating that the administration deported the U.S. citizens. A family lawyer said that the 4-year-old child, who reportedly has Stage 4 cancer, boarded the plane without medication or the ability to contact a doctor, according to The Washington Post.
Rubio said that if President Donald Trump’s administration had forced the children to stay in the U.S., the media would accused them of holding young children “hostage.” He clarified that the children are allowed to remain in the U.S. given their citizenship status.
“If someone is in this country unlawfully, illegally, that person gets deported,” Rubio continued. “If that person is with a 2-year-old child or has a 2-year-old child says ‘I want to take my child with me,’ well then you have two choices. You can say, ‘yes, of course you can take your child whether they’re a citizen or not because it’s your child,’ or you can say, ‘yes, you can go. But your child must stay behind.’ And then your headlines would read, ‘U.S. holding hostage [a] 2-year-old, 4-year-old, 7-year-old, while mother deported.’ So, the parents make that choice.”
Some Democrats and left-wing pundits have expressed fear that the Trump administration may deport U.S. citizens, which would be a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guaranteescitizenship to all individuals born on U.S. soil, which cannot be revoked.
Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20, his first day in office, ending birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants with only temporary legal status. After a federal judge struck down the order, the case was then brought to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is slated to deliberate the legality of the executive order.
Democrats have accused the administration of violating the rule of law by allegedly deporting certain illegal immigrants without due process. Four congressional Democrats, along with Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, traveled to El Salvador to meet with alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported back to his native country in March.
Keeping the family together in their parents home country is important. Deport them all ASAP.
Did I hear that right….”parents decide where their children go”….
The MSM and thier idiot followers are the enemy of the American people.
Foreign nationals illegally occupying our homeland are INVADERS ! Invaders should have none of the rights or benefits of American Citizenship !
The Democrats still haven’t figured out that they lost the election because of Their lying and deceit. HELLO
Much of what the mainstream media reports now is bravo sierra. The Founding Fathers never envisioned the press purposely misleading and inciting citizens with false reporting. Nor did the Founding Fathers envision the press covering for a dangerously unfit Joe Biden. The Trump administration has the right idea in re-configuring the press corps there to reflect technological advances that have thankfully rendered the traditional mainstream media obsolete.
If Rubio says it’s true I believe him .
I do NOT however believe anything that Mills , Frey, or Bellows tell me ..
These three people have done more to destroy Maine than most other democrats .
Democrats need to lose control of Augusta in 2026 .
Start educating voters TODAY .
The Democrats are just plane liars.
DUE PROCESS: LIES AND DISTORTIONS
My friends in Maine, in fact everywhere, are so sick of watching Democrat politicians demand that illegal alien criminals be brought home and given ” DUE PROCESS.” Do Democrats even know what due process is? I think not.
8 U.S. Code § 1227 – Deportable aliens
Democrats need to look up this code and read it. Due process is NOT a procedure limited to court. It can be upheld in any number of ways. According to the law above, an alien present in our Country, who did not come here with the legal permission of the Country, or who stayed beyond the expiration of his/her legal permission, can be exported out. It is as simple as that. If the Attorney General and the administration determine that the person is here illegally, or arrived illegally, they can remove them at will. Simply put them on a plane, train, or bus, etc. and away they go.
FOLKS, THAT IS THE “DUE PROCESS”
No court proceeding is expected or necessary. The entire episode by Democrats screaming these illegals must receive “due process,” and then claim that each one must be individually taken to court is absurd. No where in our Constitution does it state that an illegal person who is here, and in process by his mere presense ( illegal entry) of committing a crime, need to be taken to court. Our administration provides due process by simply allowing the illegal to stay or go.
To top this all off, NO OTHER CRIME EVEN NEEDS TO BE COMMITTED. The President stated that he would attempt to deal with criminals first, but he has every right to set up a process for all and remove them if he desires.
I sincerely hope everyone is as fed up with this as I am. Maine people, write, email, text, or call your elected officials and let them know America has spoken. We elected Trump to get illegals out of our Country and we are in favor of any “due process” procedure he selects.