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- Chavez Velasco, detained in Laredo, Texas, expressed distress about separation from his American citizen wife and three children, including a newborn in the NICU, stating, "I never got to hold her."
- U.S. President Donald Trump targets Dreamers, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, despite court battles over the program.
- DACA provided protections against deportation and work permits for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
