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Friday, May 1, 2026
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Jose Contreras Diaz, a DACA recipient deported to Honduras and paroled back into the U.S. this week, was immediately detained upon his arrival.
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus joined advocates from the Home is Here campaign for an urgent press conference addressing the recent U.S. Department of Justice decision that makes it easier to deport DACA recipients. The press conference came just hours after news broke that Jose Contreras Diaz, a DACA recipient deported to Honduras and expected to return home to his wife and newborn baby in Texas on Wednesday night, was immediately detained after being paroled back into the United States. More than 340 DACA recipients have been detained and more than 90 have been deported since the start of 2025, that we know of.
The Home is Here Campaign issued the following statement:
“For more than a decade, Home is Here has sounded the alarm over the threats against DACA and demanded what is long overdue: not sympathy, but justice. Not temporary relief, but a pathway to citizenship. Now the threats have mounted, and there is overstating that we are living through the most dangerous moment in DACA’s near 14-year history.
DACA recipients like Jose Contreras Diaz are paying the steepest price for Congressional inaction. Instead of being able to return home and meet his newborn son Mateo, Jose was immediately thrown into detention upon being paroled back into the U.S. this week. This moment is a test of who will choose courage over complacency, who will act boldly in the face of these escalating threats against DACA recipients, or who will shy away. We demand Jose, all DACA recipients and all immigrants who are detained or deported be able to safely return to their loved ones, and that Congress deliver a pathway to citizenship now.”
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The Home Is Here national coalition is fighting to protect DACA recipients, their families, and all immigrant communities at the U.S. Supreme Court. DACA recipients are undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. They are also our nurses, our teachers, our coworkers, our family members, and our friends — and their home is here. For more information visit HomeIsHere.Us