Tarlov kicks hornet’s nest with brain dead child deportation take: ‘Stop lying, Jessica’

An attempt to peddle the corporate media narrative on children of deported illegal aliens found Jessica Tarlov shredded on social media, having “forgotten to read stories before posting.”

Having failed to shift hearts and minds by rallying behind deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Mahmoud Khalil, leftists once again sought to use kids as pawns to prop up their open border agenda. Piggybacking off an ACLU argument that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had raised new “due process concerns” by deporting two mothers and their children, “The Five” co-host Tarlov made herself the subject of shaming over the supposedly “deeply messed up” case.

Reporter Prem Thakker shared an ACLU press release condemning the deportation of two families, “including three US citizen kids aged 2, 4, 7,” and detailed, “One of the moms is pregnant. One of the citizen kids has cancer. Both deported without medical help.”

“I’ll save you the trouble of replying, this is what you voted for because I know that’s true for some Trump supporters,” captioned the Fox News commentator. “But it’s deeply messed up. Deeply.”

I’ll save you the trouble of replying this is what you voted for because I know that’s true for some Trump supporters. But it’s deeply messed up. Deeply. https://t.co/TL84lVHgka

— Jessica Tarlov (@JessicaTarlov) April 26, 2025

Absent from the reporting was a key detail raised by Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin, who’d reminded in a statement on the deportations to Honduras that the decision to take the children was up to the parents, and it was common for them to go that route.

“Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children, or ICE will place the children with someone the parent designates. In this case, the parent stated they wanted to be removed with the children,” said McLaughlin, leading former U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Scientist Matt Van Swol to assert, “Sadly, Jessica appears to have forgotten to read stories before posting. No worries, I’ll help everyone out here. THE MOM DEMANDED THE KIDS COME WITH HER WHICH IS WHY THEY WERE ALL DEPORTED TOGETHER. All the media do is lie to you.”

Sadly, Jessica appears to have forgotten to read stories before posting them.

No worries, I’ll help everyone out here.

THE MOM DEMANDED THE KIDS COME WITH HER WHICH IS WHY THEY WERE ALL DEPORTED TOGETHER.

All the media do is lie to you. pic.twitter.com/xvAPlM3068

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) April 27, 2025

Van Swol and McLaughlin weren’t alone in decrying the media for pushing propaganda on deportations, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio had similarly refuted the claim on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” when he confronted host Kristen Welker, “On the headline, that’s a misleading headline.”

“Three U.S. citizens, ages 4, 7, and 2, were not deported. Their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported,” asserted the secretary. “The children went with their mothers. The children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States if their father, or someone here, wants to assume them. But, ultimately who was deported was their mothers, who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers.”

As Tarlov’s comment drew more attention, reactions included affirmations that keeping families together was exactly what had been on the ballot in opposing a globalist agenda, as opposed to the alternative deportation narrative that conservatives wanted to separate families.

You mean a family wasn’t separated?

— Area Man (@lheal) April 27, 2025

Nope. Keeping families together! And yes, WE VOTED FOR THIS!

— AppPatriotgirl (@jsmith4966) April 28, 2025

1st you’re angry they separated families, now you’re angry they kept them together. Will anything make you happy short of letting the invaders stay?

— Ernie Mills the 2nd (@ErnieMillsJr) April 27, 2025

Jails all over the US are full of parents who committed crimes and are separated from their children. Being a parent is not immunity for the consequences of committing a crime. Here the parents aren’t even put in jail. They’re just returned to their homelands and it’s better for…

— Bookshelf Q. Battler (@bookshelfbattle) April 27, 2025

Tarlov thinks illegals should be separated from their “anchor baby” children. What did you want the parents to do, Tarlov, leave them behind to join the 325,000 children your party “lost?”

— Gracelyn (@Gracelyn72) April 27, 2025

Stop lying, Jessica. It’s time we hold MSM accountable for the lies of the last 9 years.

MSM has had a huge hand in destroying the West for the globalist. It’s time we see handcuffs and prison sentences.

— AvoidableMadness (@LusinskiS) April 27, 2025

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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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