WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The White House is pushing back on claims they deported children who are U.S. citizens, after a lawsuit, and questions from a federal judge.
Over the weekend, three children, ages 2, 4 and 7 were removed with their Honduran-born mothers.
“If you choose to have a citizen child, knowing you’re in the country illegally, you put yourself in that position. You put your family in that position,” said White House border czar Tom Homan.
U.S. District Court Judge Terry A. Doughty ordered the Trump administration to prove the child should have been removed from the country, writing about his “strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. Citizen with no meaningful process.”
Homan said the Trump administration believes the mother of the child asked for them to come with her.
Early Sunday morning, the Rocky Mountain DEA said agents raided an after hours nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado and took 100 people suspected of living in the U.S. illegally into custody.
The Department of Homeland Security said, after well-publicized immigration raids and deportations, daily border encounters have plummeted, from a high of 15,000 a day under President Joe Biden to a low of 200 per day in February.
Homan said the Trump administration also plans to sue so-called sanctuary cities, where local officials don’t cooperate with immigration enforcement.
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