Oklahoma Senator Says Children Should Go With Their Deported Parents

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said children of deported parents should go with their parents.

“Why wouldn’t you send a child with their parents,” Mullin said on 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 claimed that there’s a “whole industry” that brings people to the United States during their last month of pregnancy so their child will be an American citizen.

“It’s a whole industry,” Mullin said. “You know it, and I know it.”

He said he’s trying to “end those” who are “gaming the system.”

He continued, saying the children of undocumented immigrants “should go where their parents go.”

Mullin’s comments come after the Supreme Court sided 6-3 on Friday with President Donald Trump and partially blocked some nationwide injunctions on the president’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, allowing the order to go into effect.

The Supreme Court’s ruling did not address the 14th Amendment, which states anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen or the 1898 case of U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, which ruled children born in the U.S. to parents who aren’t citizens are still considered U.S. citizens.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor disagreed with the court’s Friday ruling.

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates,” Sotomayor wrote in her dissent. “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 added: “With the stroke of a pen, the President has made a ‘solemn mockery’ of our Constitution.”