A Haitian 8-year-old was taken by ICE at routine check-in, rattling a San Diego school district

Wearing a pressed button-down white shirt and slacks, a Haitian boy showed up at a routine immigration appointment in downtown San Diego.Moments later, the neatly dressed 8-year-old was being led away by three immigration officers.As of Monday, his loved ones do not know exactly where he is being held, a California lawmaker said.The scene was captured on a video NBC San Diego obtained Friday.

The video was recorded Wednesday by a volunteer observer of immigration proceedings at ICE’s field office.The San Diego Unified School District and members of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, an immigrants rights advocacy group, said the boy was separated from his cousins and uncle, who has been taking care of him after his father was deported last year.Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, said in a statement Monday that even though the uncle followed all the rules, “the child was taken into custody and subsequently transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement,” which takes custody of children deemed to be unaccompanied minors.The boy, who has not been identified by name publicly, is a third grader at Fay Elementary School.

He was stripped of his immigration protections this summer after a Supreme Court decision allowed President Donald Trump to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, according to a letter school district officials sent Friday to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement.Temporary Protected Status, better known as TPS, is a humanitarian designation that shielded hundreds of thousands of Haitians from deportation following Haiti’s 2010 devastating earthquake.The protections were renewed multiple times over the years as the Caribbean country sank deeper into crisis.

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