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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday defended the Trump administration\u2019s agenda of deporting undocumented immigrants but said that \u201cof course\u201d all people in the U.S. are entitled to due process.
\u201cYes, of course,\u201d Rubio told NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d when asked whether citizens and noncitizens in the U.S. are entitled to due process.
His comments come as the Trump administration has pressed the courts<\/a> to allow the immediate deportations of immigrants it accuses of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a chance to plead their case before a judge.
Last week, the Supreme Court asked the administration to pause deportations<\/a> of some Venezuelan men based in Texas who the Trump administration said were members of Tren de Aragua, with attorneys for the immigrants asking for them not to be deported \u201cbefore the American judicial system can afford them due process.\u201d
That decision came after the Supreme Court in early April allowed the Trump administration<\/a> to move forward with some deportations under the AEA as long as detainees \u201creceive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act.\u201d
\u201cThe notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs,\u201d the Supreme Court justices added.
On Sunday, the secretary of state defended the Trump administration\u2019s deportation efforts, which have included deporting three children who are U.S. citizens \u2014 ages 2, 4 and 7 \u2014 alongside their mothers, according to <\/a>T<\/a>he Washington Post<\/a>.
\u201cTheir mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers,\u201d Rubio told moderator Kristen Welker.
\u201cIf those children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States if there\u2019s their father or someone here who wants to assume them. But ultimately, who was deported was their mother, their mothers who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers,\u201d the secretary of state added.
Rubio called the story \u201cmisleading,\u201d saying that \u201cyou guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the 2-year-old and threw him on an airplane.\u201d
According to the Washington Post, attorneys for the deported mothers were not given an opportunity to contact their lawyers or their families while in custody in the U.S.
In a December interview with \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d then-President-elect Donald Trump previewed his approach to deportations involving mixed-status families, or those where some family members are in the U.S. legally and others aren\u2019t.
\u201cI don\u2019t want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don\u2019t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back,\u201d Trump told Welker at the time.
Rubio also defended the Trump administration\u2019s broader approach to deporting undocumented immigrants, calling the strategy a departure from decadeslong norms in the U.S. that allowed undocumented migrants to remain in the country while pursuing asylum claims.
\u201cOnce you come into our country illegally, it triggers all kinds of rights that can keep you here indefinitely. That\u2019s why we were being flooded at the border, and we\u2019ve ended that,\u201d Rubio said.
He also spoke about the ongoing negotiations to reach a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, just one day after Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of Pope Francis\u2019 funeral in Rome.
Rubio said the deal was \u201ccloser in general than they\u2019ve been any time in the last three years, but it\u2019s still not there.\u201d
Speaking about the state of negotiations, the secretary of state told Welker, \u201cThere are reasons to be optimistic and there are also reasons to be concerned.\u201d
\u201cIf this was an easy war to end, it would have been ended by someone else a long time ago,\u201d Rubio added.
Alexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.
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