By Cindy Ramirez, El Paso Matters

Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira of Horizon City, shown here with his mother, is being detained by ICE although he’s a DACA recipient. (Courtesy Gamez Lira family)

A DACA recipient from Horizon City held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New Mexico may not be transferred out of the state pending further court action, a federal court judge has ruled. Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira, 28, a forklift operator who is married and has four children, was detained by a group of seven unidentified men in front of his home on Aug. 13 and has since been held at the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral, New Mexico. On Friday, Senior U.S. District Judge William P. Johnson issued a temporary restraining order against the government prohibiting Gamez Lira from being tr

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