FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
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DHS has detained over 340 DACA recipients and deported over 90 since the start of 2025.
Washington, D.C. – It’s been over a year since federal immigration agents detained DACA recipient JeanCarlos Alexis Fiallos Manzanares despite his valid and active DACA status. To this day, he is being held at the Otero County Processing Center in New Mexico, separated from his wife and two children in Miami. JeanCarlos’ case highlights the blatant efforts to render the DACA program’s protections meaningless and push hundreds of thousands of people out of status and out of their homes. This comes just as the United States Senate rejected two amendments last week that would have addressed the growing delays of DACA renewal applications and reined in immigration agents from targeting DACA recipients for detention and deportation.
The Home is Here Campaign released the following statement:
“JeanCarlos is a husband, a father of two, and someone whose only home has ever been here. Yet for more than a year, he has been locked in detention and separated from his family, despite holding valid and active DACA status. His continued detention is a direct assault on the protections DACA was created to provide.
JeanCarlos is not alone, either. Unlike anything we’ve seen before in the attempts to end DACA, federal immigration agents have detained more than 340 DACA recipients and deported over 90 since the start of 2025. Each of these cases is proof that the federal government is openly ignoring and violating DACA’s protections without consequence.
As DACA approaches its 14th anniversary, Congress can no longer claim ignorance when DACA is being gutted in plain sight. JeanCarlos and millions more who rely on temporary protections that are currently being dismantled –whether it be DACA, TPS or humanitarian parole– are bearing the consequences of Congress’ failure to deliver a pathway to citizenship. Now is the time to pass the DREAM Act and Dream and Promise Act once and for all.”