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A six-year-old deaf boy who was deported from the United States after being denied access to his hearing aids by DHS officials is now hiding in Colombia with his younger brother and mother, fearful for their lives, a lawyer has said.

The child, Joseph, is severely disabled and unable to access the specialized healthcare and education he needs in the country, which the family fled four years ago after his mother faced severe domestic violencethere.

"That violence, combined with her fears for Joseph's life, given his severe disability and the lack of specialized healthcare and education available to him, had driven her to flee," Nikolas De Bremaeker, an attorney with Centro Legal de la Raza, an Oakland, California, legal aid service, told The Independent in a statement.

Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez and her two children were detained earlier this week during a routine check-in at Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Intensive Supervision Appearance Program office in San Francisco. The family had been living in the community of Hayward in the Bay Area since arriving in the U.S. as asylum seekers.

"Ms. Rodriguez Gutierrez was never given a choice to be removed, and never agreed to deportation," De Bremaeker said. "In fact, when ICE pressured her to sign a document in a language she did not understand, and without access to counsel, she refused."

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DiabloWags said:

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Absolutely disgusting what this country has become.

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