RUBIO BLASTS 'MISLEADING' CHILD-DEPORTATION HEADLINES: ICE REMOVED MOTHERS; U.S. CITIZEN KIDS FLEW WITH THEM

Sen. Marco Rubio told NBC’s Meet the Press that reports claiming three U.S. citizen children were deported are misleading, saying ICE removed their noncitizen mothers and the children accompanied them. Rubio stressed the children, ages 2, 4 and 7, can return as citizens. Outlets including AP, the Washington Post, The Guardian and NPR used headlines suggesting the children were deported; a family lawyer says a 4-year-old with stage-four cancer flew without medication. The dispute highlights enforcement procedures in family removals and competing narratives over "deportation" versus parental choice to travel with removed parents.