Top Trump administration officials pushed back against the narrative that young children were being deported to their parents' countries of origin.

Among them were Secretary of State Marco Rubio and border czar Tom Homan, who both insisted that the children’s deported parents were the ones in charge, and they made the decision to bring their kids along with them, the New York Post reported.

“Children aren’t deported,” Homan said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

“The mother chose to take the children with her,” he said of a recent case. “[If] you’re here illegally, and you choose to have a US citizen child, that’s on you” on what to do if you get deported. That’s not on this administration,” he said.

On the Media Coverage

Rubio also took aim at the media coverage of children who have been sent back to their deported parents’ country of origin.

“You guys make it sound like [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents kicked down the door and grabbed a 2-year-old and threw him on an airplane. That’s misleading. That’s just not true,” he said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

Last week, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Louisiana raised concerns that the administration sent a 2-year-old back to Honduras alongside her deported mother “with no meaningful process,” despite the father’s wishes to keep her in the U.S.

More concerns

After the child's father filed an emergency petition, Judge Terry Doughty complained that “the court doesn't know that” it was the mother's “wishes that the child be deported with her.” Deporting a US citizen is “illegal and unconstitutional,” Doughty added.

“I disagree with the judge. It was due process,” Homan said. “That female had due process at great taxpayer expense and was ordered by an immigration judge after those hearings."

“This is Parenting 101,” he said. “You can decide to take that child with you, or you can decide to leave a child here with a relative or another spouse.

“Having a US citizen child doesn’t make you immune from our laws of the country.”

The Big Concern

Homan was quick to dispel the rumor that “the judge knows specifics of this case” and said it's “not a government decision, it's a parent's decision” when asked about Doughty voicing concerns about due process for illegal immigrants.

A 4-year-old with stage 4 cancer and a 2-year-old were sent back to their mother's location of origin, according to some reports.

“The children went with their mothers,” Rubio explained. “If those children are US citizens, they can come back into the United States if their father or someone here wants to assume them."

“Ultimately who was deported was their mothers, who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers.”