Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) stated that children of deported parents should accompany them when they leave the U.S.
“Why wouldn’t you send a child with their parents?” Mullin said during Sunday’s episode of Meet The Press. “Why would you want to separate them? I wouldn’t want to be separated from my kid, and no parent should want to be separated from their kids. So if their parents are deported, then the child should most definitely go with the parents.”
Mullin also claimed there’s a “whole industry” designed to bring pregnant individuals into the country so their children can gain U.S. citizenship.
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“It’s a whole industry,” he said. “You know it, and I know it.”
He added that he’s working to stop those who he believes are “gaming the system,” insisting that children of undocumented immigrants should “go where their parents go.”
Mullin’s remarks follow a recent the Supreme Court sided 6-3 decision siding with President Donald Trump, partially lifting injunctions that had blocked an executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. The ruling allows the order to proceed.
Notably, the Court’s decision did not overturn the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., nor did it address the 1898 U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark case that upheld citizenship for children born to non-citizen parents.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented strongly from the ruling.
“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates,” she wrote. “Today the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship.”
She concluded,
“With the stroke of a pen, the President has made a ‘solemn mockery’ of our Constitution.”
