"As we stand here, my staff has just landed in Colombia and is placing the hearing devices back in the boy's ear. To the child we have returned his sound, but to our nation, what has happened to our soul."
"If you want to deport a cartel boss, everyone here will help you pack their bags. But if you're coming for a 6-year-old, you have to go through us...How does ruining the life of a 6-year-old deaf child make our community or our country any safer? It doesn't, it makes the country darker."
A Colombian family of three, including a deaf six-year-old boy, was detained and deported by ICE during a routine check-in at an immigration office in Hayward. The deaf child was not permitted to take his hearing aid during deportation. Congressman Eric Swalwell has intervened in the case, sending staff members to Colombia to reunite the boy with his hearing device. Swalwell publicly criticized the deportation, questioning how removing a deaf child enhances community safety and calling for the family's return to the Bay Area. He contrasted the deportation of a vulnerable child with enforcement against serious criminals.
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