"No child should be ripped from their home community and hidden in a detention center, especially not a Deaf child who is being deprived of the ability to communicate and understand what is happening to him. I am calling on the federal government to return our student to his school community now. These inhumane and illegal attacks on our families must end."
"They had strong humanitarian reasons why they should not have been deported and they should have had their safeguards. Regardless of the status around deportation, humanity should stop them from sending a six-year-old into a life-threatening situation."
"It very much feels intentional. And it's chaotic and irresponsible at best and intentional and deceptive at worst. Immigration attorneys say they and Gutierrez's family were given the runaround by ICE as they tried to file habeas petitions to contest the deportation."
A hearing-impaired six-year-old boy, his mother Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, and his five-year-old sibling were detained and deported to Colombia after reporting to ICE's Intensive Supervision Appearance Program in San Francisco. The child, who is deaf and relies on a cochlear implant, was separated from his assistive devices when detained. California's superintendent of public instruction called the deportation inhumane and illegal, demanding the child's return to his school community. Immigration attorneys argue the family had strong humanitarian reasons preventing deportation and lacked proper safeguards. ICE provided conflicting information about detention locations, creating obstacles for habeas petitions challenging the deportation.
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