Cardone gave ICE until 4 p.m. Thursday to release Santiago and to notify the judge by noon Friday of the time and day Santiago was released. Norton also said that if immigration officials truly believed she should have been deported, they would not have renewed her DACA status seven times. Among them is another El Paso area DACA recipient, Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira, a 27-year-old father of four U.S. citizens. On Aug. 13, ICE agents arrested Gamez in his driveway in Horizon City, a city just east of El Paso and took him to a private immigrant detention facility in southern New Mexico. U.S. District Judge William P. Johnson of Albuquerque ordered his release on Sept. 24 after his lawyers argued that he should not have been arrested because his DACA status protects him from deportation.