Border czar maintains "no U.S. citizen child was deported"

Homan: "Not aware" of 3 national kids deported

Border czar Tom Homan says helium is "not aware" of reports of 3 U.S. national children deported 05:31

Trump medication borderline czar Tom Homan argued Sunday that "due process" was applied erstwhile a two-year-old kid who is simply a U.S. national was removed to Honduras on with her mother, who was deported.

Louisiana Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty wrote successful an bid Friday that determination was a "strong suspicion that the Government conscionable deported a U.S. national with nary meaningful process," aft the 2-year-old was sent to Honduras with her parent and 11-year-old sister.

But Homan said "the justice was owed process," adding connected "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that the two-year-old's parent "had owed process astatine large payer disbursal and was ordered by an migration justice aft those hearings, truthful she had owed process."

Doughty, who was appointed by President Trump during his archetypal term, sought to put a telephone telephone with the parent of the two-year-old connected Friday, but Justice Department lawyers informed him that a telephone with the child's parent would not beryllium possible, according to tribunal documents. Meanwhile, the two-year-old's begetter tried to petition the tribunal to person the child's ineligible custody temporarily transferred to a comparative who is simply a U.S. citizen.

When asked by Brennan astir the timeframe and process allowed, Homan reiterated that "there was owed process."

"The two-year-old went with the mom. The ma signed the paper, saying 'I privation my two-year-old to spell with me,'" Homan said. "That's a parent's decision, it's not a authorities decision."

The two-year-old is among 3 children who are American citizens who were deported removed Friday with their mothers from the U.S. to Honduras, according to tribunal documents reviewed by CBS News. Homan disputed the characterization, saying "we don't deport U.S. citizens," portion adding that successful these cases, "the parent chose to instrumentality the children with her."

"This is parenting 101," Homan said. "You tin determine to instrumentality that kid with you, oregon you tin determine to permission a kid present with a comparative oregon different spouse."

Among the children deported was a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer, advocates said. The "border czar" said helium wasn't alert of that circumstantial case. Homan argued that erstwhile idiosyncratic enters the state illegally and chooses to person a child, automatically granting the kid American citizenship, "that's connected you, that's not connected this administration."

"Having a U.S. national kid aft you participate this state legally is not a get retired jailhouse escaped card," Homan said. He added that it doesn't marque radical "immune from our laws."

The improvement comes arsenic the Trump medication has conducted accelerated deportations arsenic it pursues an assertive crackdown connected amerciable immigration. The moves person astatine times led to respective tribunal battles, including successful the lawsuit of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran nationalist who lived successful Maryland who the Justice Department has admitted was mistakenly among a radical of men deported to a situation successful El Salvador past month.

More than 230 men, mostly Venezuelans, were deported connected March 15 to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, oregon CECOT, though U.S. District Judge James Boasberg successful Washington, D.C., had ordered that the planes beryllium turned around. The Trump medication says it tin region immigrants nether the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which was antecedently utilized during wartime. The lawsuit worked its mode up to the Supreme Court, which astatine archetypal ruled the deportations could proceed arsenic agelong arsenic they were fixed owed process. 

The Supreme Court past week temporarily blocked immoderate caller deportations from a detention halfway successful Texas nether the Alien Enemies Act.