DHS deports six-year-old deaf boy after stopping him receiving his listening to assist, lawyer says | EUROtoday

A six-year-old deaf boy has been deported from the United States with members of the family – and the Department of Homeland Security refused to permit him his listening to assist earlier than departure, a lawyer has stated.

The youngster, his youthful brother and mom, Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, have been detained earlier this week throughout a routine check-in at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Intensive Supervision Appearance Program workplace in San Francisco. The household have been asylum seekers from Colombia, and had been residing in Hayward, California, for 5 years.

Nikolas De Bremaeker, an lawyer with Centro Legal de la Raza, stated he was given deceptive data and was unable to seek out the household for 2 days earlier than monitoring them right down to a detention heart in Arizona. They have since been deported to Colombia.

De Bremaeker stated Gutierrez, who works in childcare, had an order of elimination however no felony document and subsequently had a authorized proper to be notified previous to deportation.

At a information convention, the lawyer stated that whereas the mom and two boys have been on the ICE heart in San Francisco, a relative had gone to present the six-year-old his listening to assist, which he depends on talk, however was turned away by officers.

“This child has been dragged from detention center to detention center, to places that are not meant for children,” Bremaeker stated, in accordance with The Los Angeles Times.

“They are definitely not built for children with severe disabilities. It’s inhuman, illegal, and unconstitutional.”

The six-year-old boy attended California School for the Deaf at Fremont for 3 years, in accordance with Tony Thurmond, California Superintendent of Public Instruction. He demanded the return of the boy to California on the information convention.

Thurmond stated he was “deeply disturbed” that the boy was deported with out entry to his crucial medical units. “This unnecessary cruelty must end,” he stated.

“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.”

De Bremaeker stated he had spoken Friday to Gutierrez, and that she and her kids have been traumatized by the ordeal.The Independent has contacted the lawyer for additional updates.

In a press release to The Independent, a DHS spokesperson denied that Gutierrez had not obtained due course of.

“She received full due process and was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on November 25, 2024,” the assertion learn.

“ICE does NOT separate families. Parents are given a choice: They can be removed with their children or place them with a safe person they designate. This is consistent with past administration’s immigration enforcement. Gutierrez chose to be removed with her children, and they returned to their home on March 5.”

The spokesperson added: “Being in detention and in the country illegally is a choice. Parents can avoid detention and receive a free flight and $2,600 with the CBP Home app. By using the CBP Home app illegal aliens reserve the chance to come back the right legal way and live the American dream.”