U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell slammed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during a press conference at Hayward City Hall on Monday, accusing immigration authorities of preventing a family that included a deaf 6-year-old from seeing their lawyer before being deported to Colombia.
Swalwell, D-Castro Valley, spoke along with Nikolas De Bremaeker, the lawyer representing a Hayward mother and her two sons who were detained last week during an immigration check-in in San Francisco.
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