Deaf 6-year-old boy is deported to Colombia without his medical devices, attorney says
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A Hayward woman and her two young children — including a 6-year-old boy who is deaf and in need of his medical devices — were detained and deported to Colombia by federal immigration authorities after they showed up for an asylum appointment in San Francisco, her attorney said Friday.For two days after the Tuesday appointment, Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, 28, and her children could not be found by her family attorney Nikolas De Bremaeker of Centro Legal de la Raza, who said federal officers gave misleading information about their whereabouts before the three were deported.
“We were told at every point that the family was at a different location, and even up to last night, when I spoke with ICE, they told me a different location than where they actually were,” De Bremaeker said via Zoom during a news conference organized by state Supt.of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond in Los Angeles on Friday.The 6-year-old attends the California School for the Deaf in Fremont, said Thurmond, who condemned the deportation.
He called for the immediate return of the boy — naming Sen.Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump’s nominee to replace Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Security.
California Family has said 15-year-old disabled student was traumatized when federal agents drew guns on him and handcuffed him in a case of mistaken identity.According to De Bremaeker, the mother, who had received a removal order, was on a supervisory check-in when she was detained.The recipient of a supervisory order is required to periodically check in with an immigration officer and is subject to deportation if they do not report.“She has a removal order, but there are other forms of relief available to her,” De Bremaeker said.
A statement from the Department of Homeland Security described Rodriguez Gutierrez as “an illegal alien from Colombia” who “illegally entered the United St...