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.

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.