"This has been the hardest thing my family and I have ever experienced. He condemned the fact that, after being detained and deported to a country I barely remembered, the authorities made him feel that I could go home, see my family, and hug my son, only to then take that hope away from me."
"Jose should never have been detained or deported in the first place, because his DACA status was valid and his parole had been granted, said his lawyer, Stacy Tolchin. According to his family, the young man was transferred from the ICE detention center in Port Isabel to another in Harlingen."
"There are no words to express what it means to have my brother back home. We waited months for this moment, living each day with the fear and uncertainty of what would happen next, said Emily Barahona, one of his younger sisters, on Thursday afternoon. This Thursday, Contreras held his baby, Mateo, for the first time. Mateo was born after his arrest."
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admitted in February of this year that between January and November 2025, ICE had arrested 261 DACA recipients and deported 86."
A 30-year-old Honduran DACA beneficiary, Jose Contreras Diaz, was released from an ICE detention center in South Texas after being separated from his family for more than three months. He had been detained and deported earlier in the year, then returned to the United States on April 29 with parole following appeals. Upon arrival at Harlingen Airport, ICE detained him again immediately. After his release, he described the experience as the hardest his family had faced, saying authorities gave him hope and then took it away. His sisters picked him up after he was released at a bus station near Brownsville. His baby, Mateo, was born after his arrest, and his family said they are whole again. Other DACA recipients have also been detained and deported since January 2025, with DHS reporting 261 arrests and 86 deportations between January and November 2025.
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