By Cindy Ramirez and Robert Moore October 1, 2025Sign up for essential news about El Paso. Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, an El Paso DACA recipient who has been in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since August, must be released no later than Thursday, a federal judge has ruled. Santiago, 28, is being held at the ICE El Paso Service Processing Center on Montana Avenue after being detained Aug. 3 by Customs and Border Protection agents at El Paso International Airport. Santiago is the second DACA recipient from the El Paso area in recent days to be ordered release from ICE custody. (Courtesy Gamez Lira family)After his arrest, Gamez Lira was held in the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral, New Mexico, in ICE custody.