March 6, 2026, 7:58 p.m. ETA young child who attended the California School for the Deaf was deported this week without his hearing aids, along with his mother and brother, according to California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, 28, brought her two sons to a routine check-in appointment at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's San Francisco office on March 3, when she and her boys were detained by federal agents, Nikolas De Bremaeker, the family's immigration attorney with Centro Legal de la Raza, said during a press conference with Thurmond.Rodriguez Gutierrez was an asylum-seeker from Colombia who had been in the U.S. for about four years and had no criminal record worldwide, according to Bremaeker.The federal immigration court had placed an order of supervision on Rodriguez Gutierrez, which should have prevented her deportation, her lawyer said."It's an atrocious situation for the family and the child," Bremaeker said during the press conference. "There was a family member outside who could have brought the assistive equipment to the family, but ICE did not let them do this. It's inhumane, it's illegal, and it's unconstitutional."With the recent firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Thurmond called on President Donald Trump and Noem's successor Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, to help bring Rodriguez Gutierrez and her family back to the United States."I am calling on the federal government to return our student to his school community now," Thurmond said. "These inhumane and illegal attacks on our families must end.” "It is gut-wrenching," Thurmond added. "This is a young boy who depends on hearing aids and other medical devices to be successful and that he was snatched up without his hearing aids. As far as we know, he is without any care."After Rodriguez Gutierrez and her kids were detained by immigration agents, Bremaeker said he and his team could not locate where the federal government was holding the family."We were constantly misled about the actual whereabouts of the family," Bremaeker said.It was not until Friday, March 6, that Bremaeker said he heard from Rodriguez Gutierrez, learning that the family was officially deported and back in Colombia.Bremaeker said ICE officials constantly provided his team with the wrong information and location throughout the week, even up to the prior night, when the lawyer believed the family was still in the United States."This is no way for a democracy to work," Bremaeker said. "This is a complete obstruction of access to counsel, and it's a violation of our constitution, our due process protection that should apply, and the law."Bremaeker said that due to the speed at which they were deported, Rodriguez Gutierrez was not able to invoke "humanitarian protection and safeguards" that should have applied to her and her children."This is a child with severe disability; he should not have been detained," Bremaeker said. "There were so many ways to do this differently."Noe Padilla is a Northern California Reporter for USA Today. Contact him at npadilla@usatodayco.com, follow him on X @1NoePadilla or on Bluesky @noepadilla.bsky.social. Sign up for the TODAY Californian newsletter or follow us on Facebook at TODAY Californian.