LOS ANGELES — California Superintendent of Public Instruction and gubernatorial candidate Tony Thurmond called on the federal government Friday to return and release a 6-year-old deaf student who was deported without critical medical devices and without due process.
According to the family’s attorney, Nikolas De Bremaeker with Centro Legal de la Raza, the 6-year-old had attended the family’s immigration check-in appointment in San Francisco — had stayed home from school that day for being ill — when ICE agents swept in and took him and his mother and deported them to Colombia.
The child’s mother, who is an asylum seeker, has no prior criminal background and had been in the country for four years. De Bremaeker said a family member standing outside the facility could have easily given the child his medical and hearing devices, but ICE agents did not allow it…