A Hayward lady and her two younger kids — 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 stated Friday.
For 2 days after the Tuesday appointment, Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, 28, and her kids 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 have been deported.
“We have been advised at each level that the household was at a unique location, and even as much as final night time, once I spoke with ICE, they advised me a unique location than the place they really have 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 College for the Deaf in Fremont, stated Thurmond, who condemned the deportation. He known as for the rapid return of the boy — naming Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump’s nominee to interchange Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Safety.
In accordance with De Bremaeker, the mom, who had obtained a elimination 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 elimination 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 the US 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 elimination by an immigration choose on Nov. 25, 2024,” the assertion stated.
“ICE does NOT separate households. Mother and father are given a alternative: They are often eliminated with their kids or place them with a protected individual they designate,” the division stated. “Gutierrez selected to be eliminated together with her kids, and so they 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 stated, and that hindered his skill to hunt an emergency order to cease the deportation.
De Bremaeker stated the kid has had no entry to important medical care and units 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.”
College officers wrote a letter of help 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 trainer on the California College for the Deaf in Fremont, wrote within the letter obtained by the outlet.
In accordance with 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 kids per day on common because the begin of the second Trump administration. This represents a sixfold enhance in comparison 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 can be pursuing any avenues, authorized, authorities or different, to help this household,” stated Thurmond, who can also be a candidate within the governor’s race.
