{"id":160038,"date":"2025-08-20T03:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160038\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T03:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:08:10","slug":"6-year-old-nyc-public-school-student-mom-deported-to-ecuador-city-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160038\/","title":{"rendered":"6-year-old NYC public school student, mom deported to Ecuador, city officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Kathy Hochul tells ICE to release Queens family <\/p>\n

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Gov. Kathy Hochul tells ICE to release Queens family<\/p>\n

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A 6-year-old New York City public school student and her mother have been deported after they were detained by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>\u00a0last week, city officials said.<\/p>\n

In a joint statement released Tuesday, Assembly Member Catalina Cruz and Council Member Shekar Krishnan confirmed the girl and her mother were deported to Ecuador.<\/p>\n

Officials said the 6-year-old was a student at P.S. 89 in Elmhurst, Queens.<\/p>\n

Queens family detained, separated after immigration hearing<\/p>\n

The child was detained by ICE along with her mother and 19-year-old brother after an immigration hearing at 26 Federal Plaza<\/a> on Aug. 12, immigration advocates told CBS News New York.<\/p>\n

Advocates said the mother and daughter were initially sent to an ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas, and the son was sent to Delaney Hall detention facility<\/a> in Newark, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

“There is no greater depravity than separating a family and deporting a 6 year-old child two weeks before she is supposed to start school. It is a shameful stain on our country’s history and conscience,” Cruz and Krishnan said in a statement, in part.<\/p>\n

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the mother and her children entered the U.S. illegally in December 2022.<\/p>\n

Cruz and Krishnan said they have been working with legal counsel, the Department of Education, community organizations and government agencies to try to help the family.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams and city officials have filed a suit seeking an immediate halt to courthouse arrests by ICE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A DHS spokesperson responded to the suit, saying in part, “The ability of law enforcement to make arrests of criminal illegal aliens in courthouses is common sense.”<\/p>\n

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Marcia Kramer<\/a> and <\/p>\n

Adi Guajardo<\/p>\n

contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n

Katie Houlis<\/a><\/p>\n

Katie Houlis is a digital producer with the CBS New York web team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul tells ICE to release Queens family Gov. Kathy Hochul tells ICE to release Queens family…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,409,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,2065,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-160038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-immigration","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115058894781270353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}