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, during an interview Sunday on "Meet the Press," called this headline from the Washington Post "misleading": "Three U.S. Citizens, Ages 2, 4 and 7, Swiftly Deported From Louisiana" SEC.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has publicly refuted what he calls "misleading" reports concerning the deportation of the mothers of three U.S. citizen children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).