Deported deaf Hayward boy feels ‘cut off from the world,’ attorney says

FREMONT, Calif. (KRON) — California’s top education official is holding a news conference Thursday afternoon at a school in Fremont after one of the school’s young deaf students was deported to Colombia.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained 6-year-old Joseph Londono Rodriguez on March 3 in San Francisco. ICE deported him two days later with his mother and 4-year-old brother.

Joseph’s mother, Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, said her child is now extremely withdrawn and feels isolated in a foreign environment…

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