Sunday Shows Push Fake ‘Deported Citizen Babies’ Hoax, Get DESTROYED

Jorge Bonilla
April 27th, 2025 3:21 PM

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The Regime Media are in the midst of rolling out a new immigration victimhood narrative, after embarrassing themselves and losing further standing over their absurd white knighting of the deported confirmed MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But if the Sunday Shows are any indication this new narrative- a hoax, actually: “Deported Citizen Babies”, is facing a similar result.

On NBC’s Meet the Press, Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismantled the premise of citizen children being rounded up, and chastised the media’s use of language echoing the infamous Elián González raid of 1999 (click “expand” to view transcript): 

KRISTEN WELKER: Let's talk now about some new reporting that came in overnight. I want just to go through it with you and for our audience. Three U.S. citizen children have been deported with their mothers. Now this is according to The Washington Post. The family's lawyer says one of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer, deported without medication or ability to contact doctors. The family's lawyers are also saying their clients were denied communication with family and legal representatives before being deported, and it's raising concerns about the issue of due process. That it's being violated. So let me ask you, is everyone on U.S. soil, citizens and non-citizens, entitled to due process?

MARCO RUBIO: Yes, of course. But let me tell you, it looks- in immigration standing, the laws are very specific. If you are in the country unlawfully, you have no right to be here and you must be removed. That's what the law says. Somehow over the last 20 years, we've completely lost this notion that somehow- or completely adopted this idea that yes, we have immigration laws but once you come into our country illegally it triggers all kinds of rights that can keep you here indefinitely. That's why we were being flooded at the border, and we’ve ended that. And that's why you don’t- you see a historically low number of people not just trying to cross our border, trying to cross the border into Panama, all the way down in the Darien Gap. I mean- i it's been a huge help for those countries as well. On the headline- that's a misleading headline. Okay? Three U.S. Citizens, ages 4, 7 and 2 were not deported. Their mothers who were illegally in this country were deported. The children went with their mothers. Those children are U.S. citizens- they can come back into the United States- there’s- their father or someone here who wants to assume them. But ultimately who was deported was the mother- their mothers who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers. But it wasn’t like- you guys make it sound like ICA agents kicked down the door and grabbed the 2 year-old and threw them on an airplane. That’s misleading. That’s just not true.

WELKER: Just to be clear, because I do want to get to the overhaul at the State Department. Is it the U.S. policy to deport children, even U.S. citizens, with their families- and I hear what you're saying- without due process? Just to be very clear there.

RUBIO: Well- no, no, no. No, no. Again, if someone is in this country unlawfully, illegally, that person gets deported. If that person is with a 2-year-old child or has a 2-year-old child and says “I want to take my child with you- with me,” well 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’s your child or you can 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.” 

It seems like Welker made a decision to inject “no due process” into her follow-up, no matter what Rubio said- no matter how brain-dead it comes across. There is no other reasonable explanation given Rubio’s initial response to the question. 

Border Czar Tom Homan went a similar policy route when asked a version of the question by Margaret Brennan on CBS’s Faces of the Nation:

MARGARET BRENNAN: On Friday, there were three American citizen children, born here, who were deported along with their mothers from Louisiana down to Honduras. And according to advocates, one of them is a 4-year-old child with Stage Four cancer. A rare form of metastatic cancer who was sent back to Honduras without getting to talk to a doctor and without medication. I understand this child's mother entered this country illegally. But isn't there some basis for compassionate consideration here that should have allowed for more consultation or treatment?

TOM HOMAN: Well, it certainly is discretionary. I'm not aware of this specific case. But no U.S. citizen child was deported. Deported means you gotta be ordered -- reported by the immigration judge. We don’t deport U.S. citizens.

BRENNAN: The mother was deported along with the children.

HOMAN: These children- Children aren't deported. The mother chose to take the children with her. When you enter the country illegally and you know you are here illegally and you choose to have a U.S. citizen child, that's on you. That's not on this administration. If you choose to put your family in that position, that's on them. But having a U.S. citizen child, after you enter this country illegally, is not a “get out of jail free” card. It doesn't make you immune from our laws. If that's the message we send to the entire world, women are going to keep putting themselves at risk and come to this country. We send a message: you can enter the country illegally, that's okay, you can have due process at great taxpayer expense, get ordered to move, that’s OK. Don't leave, but have a U.S. citizen child and you are immune from removal? That's not the way it works.

BRENNAN: So you don't think there should be compassionate consideration for a 4-year-old child undergoing treatment for cancer?

HOMAN: I didn't say that. I said ICE officers do have discretion-

BRENNAN: That was the question.

HOMAN: ICE officers do have discretion. I'm not familiar with the specific case. I don't know what facts surround this case. I was just made aware of this when you mentioned it this morning. I was not aware of that case.

BRENNAN: On Friday, a federal judge who was appointed by President Trump said a 2-year-old American citizen child had been sent to Honduras with the mother. But the judge said, quote: “there was no meaningful process.” So again, this is another similar situation and dynamic. Shouldn't there be special care when the deportation cases involve small American-born children?

HOMAN: First of all, I disagree with the judge. There was due process. That female had due process at great taxpayer expense and was ordered by an immigration judge after those hearings. So she had due process. Again, this is Parenting 101. And you can decide to take that child with you or you can decide to leave the child here with a relative or another spouse. Having a child doesn't make you immune from our laws of the country. American families get separated every day by law enforcement- thousands of times a day. When a parent gets put in jail, the child can't go with them. If you are an illegal alien and you come to this country and you decide to have a U.S. citizen child, that's on you. You put yourself in that position.

BRENNAN: Well, when it came to this particular case, you just pointed out that they could have made arrangements. The father tried, actually, to make arrangements as we understand it through our reporting. But he and the mother who were separated, since she was in detention after showing up for her appointment, was only allowed a very brief phone call. The father tried to petition to get the child handed over to an American citizen relative. So the mother had to make this decision and took the child with her. It just seems like there could be some more time frame here around due process allowed. That's what the judge is saying, is saying- there should have been more of a process here.

HOMAN: There was due process. The 2-year-old baby- the two year old baby was left with the mother because the mother signed a document requesting her 2-year-old baby go with her. That's the parent's decision. I don't think the judge knows the specifics of this case. The 2-year-old went with the mom. The mom signed a paper saying, “I want my 2-year-old to go with me.” That's a parent's decision. It's not a government decision, it’s a parent’s decision.

BRENNAN: The father wrote a note. Anyhow, we have to leave it there, Director. Thank you for your time today. We’ll be right back.

Brennan tried to force the hoax via the manipulative deployment of victim porn: in this case, repeated mentions of the 4-year-old with a rare form of cancer. When Homan refused the bait, Brennan discarded the cancer patient and then pivoted to the two-year-old, with the same result. There’s a lesson here, which is that the left and their media don’t care about these kids (or their parents) unless they can be deployed and paraded about as victims and supplicants.

On ABC’s This Week, former DoJ spokesperson Sarah Isgur delivered the most succinct takedown of this emerging narrative:

MARTHA RADDATZ: Sarah, I want to turn here to some information that has been in The Washington Post about deportations of very young children who are American citizens. A 2-year-old, a 4-year-old, a 7-year-old sent back to Honduras. Is that legal?

SARAH ISGUR: This is something our immigration system deals with nearly every day. U.S. citizen children have to make that decision with their parents of whether they're going to stay. The parent has the decision. We do not allow illegal alien parents to stay just because they have custody over U.S. citizen children, and at least one of these cases with the 2-year-old, the mother was the one who made the decision to take her daughter with her. The father is the one saying he wanted the daughter to stay here. Often times, it’s going to look more like a custody dispute than an immigration question.

Custody dispute vs. immigration question is going to leave a sting. And, just like that and in a little over an hour the media’s latest hoax, the Deported Citizen Babies Hoax, was shattered.

 

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