A Hayward lady and her two younger youngsters — together with a 6-year-old boy who’s deaf and in want of his medical units — have been detained and deported to Colombia by federal immigration authorities after they confirmed up for an asylum appointment in San Francisco, her lawyer mentioned Friday.
For 2 days after the Tuesday appointment, Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, 28, and her youngsters couldn’t be discovered by her household lawyer Nikolas De Bremaeker of Centro Authorized de la Raza, who mentioned federal officers gave deceptive details about their whereabouts earlier than the three have been deported.
“We have been informed at each level that the household was at a unique location, and even as much as final evening, once I spoke with ICE, they informed me a unique location than the place they really have been,” De Bremaeker mentioned by way of Zoom throughout a information convention organized by state Supt. of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond in Los Angeles on Friday.
The 6-year-old attends the California College for the Deaf in Fremont, mentioned Thurmond, who condemned the deportation. He known as for the quick return of the boy — naming Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump’s nominee to switch Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Safety.
In line with De Bremaeker, the mom, who had acquired a removing order, was on a supervisory check-in when she was detained. The recipient of a supervisory order is required to periodically examine in with an immigration officer and is topic to deportation if they don’t report.
“She has a removing order, however there are different types of aid accessible to her,” De Bremaeker mentioned.
A press release from the Division of Homeland Safety described Rodriguez Gutierrez as “an unlawful alien from Colombia” who “illegally entered america in 2022 and was RELEASED into our nation below the Biden administration.”
Rodriguez Gutierrez “acquired full due course of and was issued a ultimate order of removing by an immigration decide on Nov. 25, 2024,” the assertion mentioned.
“ICE does NOT separate households. Dad and mom are given a alternative: They are often eliminated with their youngsters or place them with a protected particular person they designate,” the division mentioned. “Gutierrez selected to be eliminated along with her youngsters, they usually returned to their dwelling on March 5.
De Bremaeker alleged that the household’s location and standing have been purposefully withheld by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in violation of federal regulation. He added that the kid couldn’t entry listening to units whereas detained.
“It feels intentional that this data is withheld from us and that we’re led astray at each level,” De Bremaeker mentioned, and that hindered his capability to hunt an emergency order to cease the deportation.
De Bremaeker mentioned the kid has had no entry to important medical care and units since his deportation.
In February, a federal decide in California dominated that ICE was required to offer “constitutionally satisfactory healthcare” of their in-state services after seven detainees filed a federal class motion lawsuit in opposition to the company and DHS. On the time, a Homeland Safety spokesperson mentioned the decide’s order was “pointless and superfluous given DHS’s medical coverage goes above and past.”
College officers wrote a letter of help to incorporate within the little one’s immigration case, based on the San Francisco Chronicle.
“I respectfully and urgently urge all events concerned to think about the profound training and humanitarian stakes for this little one. [He] belongs in a classroom the place he can thrive, talk and develop,” Leeza Williams, a instructor on the California College for the Deaf in Fremont, wrote within the letter obtained by the outlet.
In line with an evaluation from the Marshall Challenge — a nonpartisan, nonprofit information group that analyzed ICE and Deportation Information Challenge deportation statistics — ICE has held round 170 youngsters per day on common because the begin of the second Trump administration. This represents a sixfold improve compared with the final 16 months of the Biden administration, based on the evaluation.
Thurmond mentioned he has reached out to each of California’s senators and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin), who represents the district the place the kid’s faculty is positioned.
“We shall be pursuing any avenues, authorized, authorities or different, to help this household,” mentioned Thurmond, who can be a candidate within the governor’s race.
