Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago , an immigration activist and DACA recipient, has spent over 50 days in immigration detention in El Paso, Texas. Despite being in the United States legally, according to Santiago’s attorneys, the Trump administration is arguing that it can hold her indefinitely in a not-so-subtle attempt to run out the clock until her status expires and deport her.

Immigration experts warn that the administration’s tactics could be used as a backdoor to expel those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which offers temporary protection from deportation to some formerly undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.

On August 3, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents detained Santiago, 28, at the airport while she was attemptin

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