San Antonio student activist under investigation by FBI now in detention, facing deportation
A DACA student who has been protesting outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on the North Side is now in federal custody facing deportation, either a victim of retaliation for speaking his mind or a violator of immigration law accused of making threats against law enforcement.
Sergio “Mapache” Salazar, 18, is being painted by his lawyers and supporters as coming under attack from federal agents because he’s calling for the elimination of ICE, the federal agency that has been a lightning rod over the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants that included the now-abandoned practice of separating undocumented parents from their children at the border.
But federal officials say he was arrested Friday for violating federal immigration law — an application to renew his temporary legal status was denied the day before — and sources confirmed Salazar’s name is on an FBI database of potential threats.
Salazar was born in Mexico and has been here since he was 2. He has been living legally in the United States as a recipient of temporary legal immigration status under the controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. The advocacy organization RAICES had filed for a renewal of his DACA status.
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