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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

Immigrant mothers are to blame for their US citizen children being deported, says Trump’s border czar: ‘Parenting 101’

White House border czar Tom Homan defended the Trump administration’s deportation of children with United States citizenship on their mothers who were in the country without legal status, saying they were the ones who put their family “in that position.”

Last week, the administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen alongside their pregnant mother with what one judge called “no meaningful process.” At least two other children, aged four and seven, were also deported alongside their mother too – despite the 4-year-old having stage 4 cancer.

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