Rubio, Homan Take on Media Over Immigration Reporting
“But it wasn’t like you guys make it sound, like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed a two-year-old and threw him on an airplane. That’s misleading. That’s just not true.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, while on Meet the Press, hit back at the media on Sunday, claiming that the media have been misrepresenting the facts across the board when it comes to immigration reporting.
.@SecRubio nukes @kwelkernbc on the latest misleading Fake News hoax: "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! … The parents make that choice." pic.twitter.com/IJt1Lz1xWN
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 27, 2025
From the segment (slightly edited for clarity):
“That’s a misleading headline. Three US citizens, ages four, seven, and two, were not deported. Their mothers, who are illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers. Those children are US citizens. They can come back into the United States if their father or someone here who wants to assume them. But ultimately, who was deported was their 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 ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed a two-year-old and threw him on an airplane. That’s misleading. That’s just not true.”
The host, Kristen Welker, tried to make it about due process:
“Just to be clear, because I do want to get to the overhaul at the State Department. Is it the US policy to deport children, even US citizens with their families, and I hear what you’re saying without due process? Just to be very clear there.”
Secretary Rubio was not having it:
“Well, no, no, no, no, no. Again, if someone’s in this country unlawfully, illegally, that person gets deported. If that person is with a two-year-old child, or has a two-year-old child and says, I want to take my child with me, well then what 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, us holding hostage a two-year-old, four-year-old, seven-year-old, while the mother is deported. So the mother, the parents, make that choice. I imagine those three US citizen children have fathers here in the United States, they can stay with their fathers. That’s up to their family to decide where the children go. Children go with their parents. Parents decide where their children go. The US deported their mothers, who were illegally in America.”
Talk about a fact check.
Not done with taking the press on today, Team Trump sent Tom Homan on Face the Nation to, once again, embarrass Margaret Brennan, who as LI readers remember, compared free speech to Nazism.
On @FaceTheNation, @margbrennan pleads for “more time frame here around due process,” @RealTomHoman zings: “This is parenting 101. You can decide to take that child with you or you can decide to leave the child here with a relative or spouse. Having a child doesn’t make you… pic.twitter.com/yVrSL5vCda
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) April 27, 2025
From the exchange (edited for clarity):
“First of all, I disagree with the judge. It was due process that the 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, you can decide to take that child with you, or you can decide to leave a child here with a relative or another spouse. Having a US citizen child doesn’t make you immune from lawsuits in this 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’re an illegal alien and come to this country and you decide to have your US citizen child, that’s on you. You put yourself in that position.”
After these exchanges, people on Twitter were quick to point out just how badly the media has been portraying immigration stories since Trump took office:
The deportation reporting has gone completely off the rails. News orgs have become transcription services for activist attorneys without regard for the facts or context. It now takes time and research to determine the truth about each case because the reports are so unreliable.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 27, 2025
Examples in the last week:
– see a headline about a man deported to Jamaica after being in America for 21 years only to find out he was a drug dealer who spent 15 of those years in prison for kidnapping
– see a headline about day laborers being picked up looking for work, only…— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 27, 2025
The media has lost all credibility.
They know. https://t.co/lctSqYL2dD
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 27, 2025
This is particularly stupid, even for @kwelkernbc. https://t.co/32YlGomwkT
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) April 27, 2025
Legacy media is always misleading. Secretary Rubio sets the record straight! https://t.co/YXpCtbqcbe
— Monroe County Republicans (@MonroeCntyNYGOP) April 27, 2025
MSM just can’t handle the truth! https://t.co/HVylC4gCFm
— Frank Ferriolo (@Spaceman3810) April 27, 2025
Dear LI readers, is it too much to ask the media to tell the truth?
I think we all know the answer to that.
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Comments
“The father wrote a note”
Where exactly is this father?
Is he a citizen?
The “father” who wrote the note is likely an illegal himself, which is why he didn’t dare show up in court.
These media morons would be the first to screech if the citizen-children were sundered from their illegal alien mother due to her deportation only (even if the children remained with the biological father or other family member in the US).
Everyone reading this knows this is true..
Yes I think it is too much to ask the media to speak the truth these days. What talking to the media admin officials should start of by asking them “What lie do you intend to peddle today”.
“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, us holding hostage a two-year-old, four-year-old, seven-year-old,..”
Paging Elio Gonzales…
Sob stories deployed as propaganda weapons with goal of avoiding or mitigating accountability. Typical leftist tactics of using SIGN language.
Shame, Insults, Guilt, the Need to be correct
Look for those being used and it’s easy to ID leftists and those to some degree aligned with/influenced by leftists. These are the sorts of folks who seek to tone police, demanding the message be softened instead of dealing with substance of the message. Same for those who attack the messenger v the substance of the message. Accountability is kryptonite to these folks and they will perform all sorts of mental gymnastics to avoid accepting they are wrong.
Media tell the truth? Ha!
This is the same media that celebrated Clinton’s & AG Reno’s INS troopers kicking down the door to send Elián González back to Cuba.
The media are not saying the quiet part out loud. That is that one benefit of having an “anchor baby” in the United States is that the child is a US citizen, and the hope is that if there is no one else to care for the child, the non-citizen parent will not be deported, and then, after, say, 18 years (or even more, if there are more children), the parent will claim to have established ties to the US that preclude deportation.
NO ONE IS BREAKING UP ANY FAMILY!
the illegal ADULT(s) have the CHOICE
take your children or leave your children
its your choice
In all of this the important thing is never explained.
Due Process for someone in this country illegally is as follows.
An agent of the law asks them to show if they are here legally. If they cannot, and cannot ask someone to bring such proof because there is none, they are given expedited removal and sent back to their country of origin.
That IS the ‘due process’.
It is not a hearing.
No judges or lawyers are involved.
Those are reserved for refugees, asylees, and visa holders.
This must be made clear.