Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the deportation of three children who are U.S. citizens, claiming the mothers could have made their kids stay behind. “Those children are U.S. citizens,” Rubio said on Sunday’s episode of “Meet The Press.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood by the removal of two U.S. citizen children, one of them suffering from cancer. "The children went with their mothers."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said three young children, ages 2, 4 and 7, who are all United States citizens and removed from the country in recent weeks, were "not deported" but " went with their mothers " to Honduras.