On Sunday, Red State posted an article about the latest sob story currently making the rounds about deporting illegal aliens. Responding to the crocodile tears being shed about a two-year old being deported, Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided to share the story of a similar incident.
The article reports:
Democrats seem to think the way to go after the Trump administration is to attack their moves regarding illegal aliens. But that’s one of the areas where he has the most approval. Instead, it’s Democrats attaching themselves to 80/20 issues on the 20 side, as they’re doing in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the arrest of the judge in Wisconsin for allegedly helping an illegal alien evade ICE agents.
Now there’s another case that’s making the media rounds. You may have seen the headlines blaring about a two-year-old American citizen being deported. The judge in the case raised questions about “due process” — seemingly, the leftist word of the month.
But of course, as with all these stories, there’s more to it than that. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed that and a similar case involving a four-year-old and a seven-year-old. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, he nuked the misleading framing:
“Three U.S. citizens ages 4, 7, and 2 were not deported — their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers!” Rubio declared. Nothing is preventing the children from coming back into the country, he explained.
Are these the same Democrats that on April 22, 2000, arrested six-year-old Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint at his uncle’s home where he was hiding in a closet? We have all seen the picture:
Spare me your crocodile tears!
The article concludes:
The children can come back, the family can work out whatever arrangements they want for them; if they have family here, that’s up to the families.
The judge has scheduled a hearing for May 16 to address any questions in the case of the two-year-old, so that will ultimately be determined. I imagine there will be further process in the other case as well, to investigate if there were any issues.
But the media, of course, was skipping over the context, yet again.