U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has provided a full-throated defense of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda in recent months, including during an interview on Sunday.
In reference to a Washington Post article claiming that three children between the ages of 2 and 7 were deported from Louisiana days earlier, Rubio called out the “misleading headline” and offered some important context.
Per Fox News:
“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. 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,” Rubio said.
Marco Rubio explains the purposefully misleading, fake news headline….
Fake news seems to understand and agree, but then immediately repeats the fake claim. You really can’t talk to these propaganda readerspic.twitter.com/tgZEkHOVDb
— MaggieWise
(@maggiewise111) April 28, 2025
Fox News provided an additional excerpt from his comments:
“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. 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,” Rubio said.
Here are some other clips of Rubio’s remarks on the matter since his confirmation:
The foreign policy of the United States is conducted by @POTUS — not by a court — and no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.
It’s that simple. End of story. pic.twitter.com/POwSlWT7Du
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) April 14, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not be lectured about immigration.
“This isn’t immigration, mass migration is a bad thing.”
How do you think Marco is doing so far? pic.twitter.com/4I8tDmFT0a
— AmericanPapaBear (@AmericaPapaBear) April 22, 2025
MARCO RUBIO IS TIRED OF THE VISA COMPLAINTS.pic.twitter.com/o7pwcjBX1R
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 29, 2025
As the New York Post reported, another top immigration official also pushed back against the media’s characterization of recent deportations:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and border czar Tom Homan insisted that the children’s deported parents made the decision to bring their kids along with them, rather than the Trump administration booting the young American citizens.
“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.
“That’s not on this administration,” he said.
Here’s a clip of Rubio’s full interview:
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