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EL PASO — A federal judge ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday to immediately release 28-year-old Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, a Mexican immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for two decades, because she is protected from deportation under DACA.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone, a Bush appointee in El Paso, said in her ruling that Santiago’s detainment “deprives her of her constitutional right to procedural due process under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”

The Trump administration “did not present any evidence indicating that Santiago has endangered anyone during her twenty years at liberty, including her thirte

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