Podcast: El Paso DACA recipients targeted for deportation by immigration officials. Our journalists talk about their cases.

Podcast: El Paso DACA recipients targeted for deportation by immigration officials. Our journalists talk about their cases.

DACA recipients targeted by ICE in El Paso. What w | RSS.com Diego Mendoza-Moyers: In August, two people living and working in El Paso were arrested and detained by federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents. They were seemingly protected by DACA –  deferred action on childhood arrival – a program meant to grant a level of legal status to people brought into the U.S. years ago as small children. Still, (Catalina) “Xochitl” Santiago and …

Activist Catalina 'Xóchitl' Santiago Remains in ICE Jail Despite Judge Dropping Deportation Case

Immigrant rights groups are demanding the immediate release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient and longtime community organizer from El Paso, Texas. She remains in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody despite a judge terminating her deportation proceedings. Santiago, who has lived in the United States since childhood, was seized by Border Patrol agents in early August at El Paso…