'We're talking about children sir': CNN host presses official willing to hand kids to ICE

Oklahoma's superintendent of public schools adamantly proclaimed to CNN on Tuesday that he would do anything he could to further President Donald Trump's agenda — even if it meant informing on his own students.

Ryan Walters appeared with anchor Breanna Keilar to discuss a measure approved by Oklahoma's Board of Education that requires families to prove U.S. citizenship when enrolling students.

"I want to talk about what you have made clear, which is that raids are within the realm of possibility," Keilar said, before playing a recording of Walters pronouncing, "If that's what President Trump sees fit, as there's an illegal immigrant population there that needs to have enforcement to remove them from the schools, absolutely, we will work with him to make sure that he's able to carry that out."

Keilar asked, "Do you think that would be traumatic for students in schools? And I'm talking about all students."

"Well, what my big concern is what illegal immigration has done to our education system. It has caused mass chaos. We aren't able to get the resources — " Walters began before Keilar interrupted him.

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"Can you answer my question, please, superintendent? Do you think it would be traumatic for students to witness a raid in their school, and students forcibly removed from their school? Do you think that would be traumatic?"

Walters answered, "I think what would be traumatic is if you didn't give Trump, President Trump, the information necessary to keep families together. So, what you would prefer is to just deport the parents and have the kids have no idea what happened to their parents."

Keilar shot back, "That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking you — that's not at all what I'm asking. Superintendent, I'm asking you if you had a raid on a school and you were forcibly removing students from schools, if you think that would be traumatic for other students in the school."

Walters reiterated that he will comply with Trump's deportation agenda.

The back-and-forth continued until Keilar interjected, "Children. I'm talking about children, sir."

"The person arrested by Homeland Security as a terrorist in our school last year was a student," Walters said. "And, so, that's where it's so important to have this information, work with law enforcement. We're going to bring law and order back. It's sensible. It's common sense."

"So you'll only remove — are you saying you'll only remove children from schools if they are suspected terrorists?" Keilar asked.

"I'm saying that we're going to work with the Trump administration to enforce their anti-illegal immigration policy. That includes giving them information about students in our schools, families enrolled in our schools, so they can make the decisions on how to deport families together and how to identify criminals in our school system."

Watch the clip below via CNN.