A Hayward girl and her two younger youngsters — together with a 6-year-old boy who’s deaf and in want of his medical gadgets — had been detained and deported to Colombia by federal immigration authorities after they confirmed up for an asylum appointment in San Francisco, her lawyer stated 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 stated federal officers gave deceptive details about their whereabouts earlier than the three had been deported.
“We had been instructed at each level that the household was at a special location, and even as much as final night time, after I spoke with ICE, they instructed me a special location than the place they really had been,” De Bremaeker stated through 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 Faculty for the Deaf in Fremont, stated Thurmond, who condemned the deportation. He referred to as for the fast return of the boy — naming Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump’s nominee to exchange Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Safety.
In response to De Bremaeker, the mom, who had obtained 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 reduction out there to her,” De Bremaeker stated.
An announcement 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 “obtained full due course of and was issued a last order of removing by an immigration choose on Nov. 25, 2024,” the assertion stated.
“ICE does NOT separate households. Mother and father are given a selection: They are often eliminated with their youngsters or place them with a protected individual they designate,” the division stated. “Gutierrez selected to be eliminated along with her youngsters, and so they returned to their house on March 5.
De Bremaeker alleged that the household’s location and standing had been purposefully withheld by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in violation of federal regulation. He added that the kid couldn’t entry listening to gadgets whereas detained.
“It feels intentional that this info is withheld from us and that we’re led astray at each level,” De Bremaeker stated, and that hindered his capacity to hunt an emergency order to cease the deportation.
De Bremaeker stated the kid has had no entry to important medical care and gadgets since his deportation.
In February, a federal choose in California dominated that ICE was required to supply “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 stated the choose’s order was “pointless and superfluous given DHS’s medical coverage goes above and past.”
Faculty officers wrote a letter of assist to incorporate within the baby’s immigration case, in keeping with the San Francisco Chronicle.
“I respectfully and urgently urge all events concerned to contemplate the profound training and humanitarian stakes for this baby. [He] belongs in a classroom the place he can thrive, talk and develop,” Leeza Williams, a instructor on the California Faculty for the Deaf in Fremont, wrote within the letter obtained by the outlet.
In response to an evaluation from the Marshall Venture — a nonpartisan, nonprofit information group that analyzed ICE and Deportation Information Venture deportation statistics — ICE has held round 170 youngsters per day on common because the begin of the second Trump administration. This represents a sixfold enhance compared with the final 16 months of the Biden administration, in keeping with the evaluation.
Thurmond stated 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 college is situated.
“We shall be pursuing any avenues, authorized, authorities or different, to assist this household,” stated Thurmond, who can be a candidate within the governor’s race.
