A 30-year-old South Texas man was freed by federal officials Thursday after being deported earlier this year, and returned to the United States, only to be detained once again.
Before he was deported, José Contreras Díaz — whose mother raised him in the Rio Grande Valley — lived in Edinburg as a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. If approved by federal officials, DACA recipients get protection from deportation and two-year-renewable work permits as long as they keep a clean criminal record.
