Top officials from the Trump administration defended against claims that US citizen children were being deported with their parents. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and border czar Tom Homan clarified that the decision to bring children along is made by the parents. They criticized media portrayal as misleading. A recent case raised by a federal judge questioning the process of deporting a 2-year-old sparked the discussion, leading officials to emphasize that deportation decisions were lawful and involved due process.
"Children aren't deported," Homan said on CBS News' "Face the Nation." "The mother chose to take the children with her," he said of a recent case. "[If] you're here illegally, and you choose to have a US citizen child, that's on you on what to do if you get deported."
Rubio also complained about the media coverage of children getting sent back to their deported parents' country of origin. "You guys make it sound like [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents kicked down the door and grabbed a 2-year-old and threw him on an airplane. That's misleading. That's just not true," he said on NBC News' "Meet the Press."
Last week, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Louisiana raised concerns that the administration sent a 2-year-old back to Honduras alongside her deported mother "with no meaningful process," despite the father's wishes to keep her in the US.
"I disagree with the judge. It was due process," Homan said. "That female had due process at great taxpayer expense and was ordered by an immigration judge after those hearings. This is Parenting 101," he said. "You can decide to take that child with you, or you can decide to leave them here."
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