Secretary of State Marco Rubio said three young children, ages 2, 4 and 7, who are all United States citizens and removed from the country in recent weeks, were "not deported" but " went with their mothers " to Honduras.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rejected the notion that the U.S. government is deporting its own citizens, even as children as young as two years old have been sent out of the country. The administration is instead deporting their mothers,