Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Thursday criticized Sen. Bob Casey Robert (Bob) Patrick CaseyGAO report finds brokers offered false info on coverage for pre-existing conditions Catholic group launches .7M campaign against Biden targeting swing-state voters GOP senator to quarantine after coronavirus exposure MORE Jr.’s (D-Pa.) “outrageous” tweets decrying a recent deportation.

Casey on Wednesday urged President Trump and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to halt the deportation of a Honduran mother and child, and then took to Twitter to shame Trump and the DHS.

Shame on @realDonaldTrump @Reince45 @DHSgov @ICEgov for turning their back on this child and his mother. They should be better than this. — Senator Bob Casey (@SenBobCasey) May 4, 2017

“You can’t pick and choose the laws you follow,” Kelly responded on Thursday, according to McClatchy. “I can’t pick and choose the laws I enforce.”

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“You have to understand that ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security, John Kelly, I don’t, we don’t deport people. The law deports people.”

Kelly added that he tried contacting Casey five times following the senator’s Twitter outburst.

Casey on Wednesday railed against the deportation of a Honduran mother and her 5-year-old son.

“Twitter: it’s urgent,” he tweeted. “I just found that a young child & mother who came to U.S. seeking refugee will be sent back to Honduras today.”

“I just had a picture of this 5yr old come across my desk,” Casey continued. “He’s adorable and wrote that he had ‘nowhere to go.’”

“What I won’t do: stand by silently as a vulnerable child and his mother are sent to their possible death.”

McClatchy said the woman and her son flew back to Honduras on Wednesday, after more than a year in the U.S.

The two were among a dozen mothers and children who had been held for over a year at the Berks County Residential Center near Reading, Pa.

Casey on Wednesday described the pair’s return to Honduras as “a potential death sentence” due to gang violence there.

Kelly said Thursday that the woman was denied the opportunity to stay in the U.S. by multiple courts, including the Supreme Court.