March 11, 2026 – SACRAMENTO—Last week, Joseph Andrey Londono Rodriguez, a six-year-old Deaf student with
disabilities who was enrolled at the California School for the Deaf, Fremont, at the time of his detention, was detained and deported without critical assistive devices and without due process. Now, the California Department of Education (CDE) has learned his detention and deportation occurred under false pretenses.
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Nikolas De Bremaeker, an attorney for the boy’s mother, Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, said, “Ahead of the check-in, Ms. Rodriguez Gutierrez was told she needed to bring her two children to renew the photos ICE has on record for them. At the routine check-in, ICE at no point explained to Ms. Rodriguez Gutierrez what was happening to them. ICE agents took their photos and fingerprints, tried to force her to sign a document without explanation, and then pushed the family into a vehicle to be put on a flight to a faraway detention facility, all within minutes.”…