The Beat Goes On: Family, including child with disability, deported to Colombia after immigration check-in
News from the San Francisco Bay Area. An attorney for Centro Legal de la Raza, said his client and her sons (ages 5 and 7) were arrested and detained earlier this week when they appeared at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco. For two days, neither family members nor the attorney were able to contact them. Their attorney later learned that the family had been deported to Colombia.
The family had been living in the Bay Area for about four years after the mother fled Colombia to escape what was described as an abusive relationship. Her former partner allegedly had ties to a violent gang. The family had received several threats from him. One of the sons is severely hearing impaired and was deported without assistive hearing devices he relies on daily. A relative had been waiting outside the detention center with the equipment, according to the attorney.
