The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is facing intense online backlash after a six-year-old deaf boy and his family were deported to Colombia following a routine immigration check-in in San Francisco.
According to immigration advocates, the child, who uses a cochlear implant and communicates primarily through American Sign Language (ASL), was detained along with his five-year-old brother and their mother, Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, during their scheduled visit to an ICE office under a supervision programme that requires regular reporting.
