Deportation of deaf child, family from Bay Area to Colombia draws outrage from state superintendent

A Bay Area child who attended a school for the deaf was summarily detained and deported, alongside his mother and brother, this week during an immigration office visit, prompting the state’s superintendent of schools to call on the Trump administration to return him to the United States.

According to a KTVU report and a news release sent Friday from state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, the 7-year-old child was removed from the country following what was supposed to...