Sen. Marco Rubio denied that the US deported three citizens aged two, four and seven instead saying that the children's mothers opted to take them with them.

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.

You guys just make it sound like I say, ‘Just kick down the door and grab the two-year-old’ and threw them on an airplane. That’s misleading,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on NBC on Sunday morning.