Rubio Debunks Media Lies About ICE ‘Deporting’ Sick Child Live on NBC News [WATCH]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed back against reports claiming that three minor U.S. citizens were deported without due process, calling the allegations “misleading” during a press statement over the weekend.

The Washington Post reported that three American children, aged two, four, and seven, were removed from the United States along with their mothers from a Louisiana immigration facility on Friday.

According to the report, the four-year-old child is suffering from stage IV cancer, and family attorneys alleged that the mother was unable to contact medical providers during the removal process.

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Rubio directly challenged the narrative, emphasizing that the children were not themselves deported, but instead accompanied their mothers, who were determined to be in the country illegally.

“That’s a misleading headline. Three U.S. citizens, aged 4, 7 and 2 were not deported. Their mothers were legally deported, and the children went with their mothers. They can come back to their father or someone who wants to assume them,” Rubio said.

“Ultimately, it was the mothers who were here illegally. You guys make it sound like ICE kicked down the door and grabbed the child and threw them on an airplane, and it’s misleading and that is not true.”

However, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty, a Trump appointee, expressed skepticism regarding the government’s explanation.

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In response to an emergency request filed Thursday night by the father of the two-year-old girl, Doughty issued an order indicating he had a “strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”

According to the family’s attorneys, the toddler had accompanied her mother to a scheduled immigration meeting as part of the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, intended to allow immigrants to remain in their communities under supervision.

The attorneys claimed that after a brief, one-minute phone call with the girl’s father, the mother’s communication was cut off by ICE agents.

The mother and child were then reportedly placed on a flight to Honduras the next morning.

In his order, Judge Doughty wrote, “The government contends that this is all okay because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her, but the court doesn’t know that.”

Despite the court’s concerns, Rubio remained firm in his defense of the federal action, reiterating that the deportation orders were applied only to the mothers, not to their U.S. citizen children.

He emphasized that if a parent facing removal elects to bring their child with them, it is within their rights to do so.

“If someone is in this country unlawfully, illegally that person gets deported. If that person is with a 2-year-old child and says I want to take my child with me, then you have two choices,” Rubio said.

“You can say yes, of course, you can take your child whether they’re a citizen or not, because it is your child. Or say yes, you can go, but your child must stay behind. And then your headlines would read U.S. holding hostage 2-year-old, 4-year-old, 7-year-old while mother deported.”

Legacy media has worked overtime to implant yet another fake controversy about “US Children” being deported.

Marco Rubio appeared on ABC to set the record straight:

“Three US citizens, ages four, seven, and two, were not deported. Their mother, who is illegally in this country,… pic.twitter.com/aOSCFLnGQ3

— Media Lies (@MediasLies) April 27, 2025

As of now, the administration maintains that the children remain U.S. citizens and are free to return to the United States if placed under the care of a parent or other guardian willing to assume responsibility.

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