Hi-Line immigration arrest sends American kids across border [Video]

U.S. immigration authorities deported eight children, some of whom were United States citizens, following the arrest of 21 people in late April near the Montana-Canada border.

Authorities deported the children along with their mothers to Canada while keeping the women’s husbands and others in the United States to face criminal immigration charges.

The children ranged in age from less than a year to 10. At least three were U.S. citizens, although the exact number wasn’t clear in court documents or testimony. Most of the people involved are Romanian citizens, according to case documents.

During a hearing Monday in U.S. District Court in Great Falls, U.S. Border Patrol agent Adam Kovatch said that the group produced birth certificates for the American children while detained at a border patrol station.

“We were initially told that some were born in Germany, but later it came to light that several were born in the …