08/11/2026
BREAKING🚨 Three American kids in Álamo, Texas are starting the school year ALONE. Their mother, a DACA recipient with a permit good through April 2027, was deported in March, and the 16-year-old took a job to help cover rent.
Jessica Treviño, 34, has lived in Álamo, Texas since she was 7. On December 28, ICE agents in UNMARKED vehicles followed her family's car as they drove to church after a Starbucks run. Her husband, frightened, kept driving until he stopped in a Home Depot lot. An ICE vehicle rammed them from the front. The airbags blew, the coffee spilled, and their daughter Sarah, then 14, watched agents hit her father.
"I was telling them, 'Don't hit him. Why are you hitting him? He didn't do anything wrong,'" Sarah says. She says an agent shoved her against the car door hard enough to leave a bruise on her neck. That night she had nightmares, waking up in tears trying to work out whether it had really happened.
Treviño told agents she had DACA. She says they answered that it didn't matter, that it wasn't a legal status. She spent nearly 90 days in an ICE facility in the Rio Grande Valley, unable to go home and retrieve the physical permit that proved it. A judge found no evidence her DACA was valid and ordered voluntary departure. She was deported on March 25.
DHS says she "knowingly accepted voluntary departure and waived appeal" and "will NOT return." Treviño says she signed nothing and never agreed to go. Her attorney, David Rozas, has asked a federal judge in Brownsville to declare the removal unlawful and bring her home.
Her three children, all U.S. citizens, are still in Álamo. The 16-year-old took a fast-food job to help with rent. Sarah does most of the cooking. She turns 15 on August 26, with school starting the same month and no quinceañera planned.
"The only thing that divides us is a river, a border. I'm really desperate," Treviño says.
Under this administration, 86 DACA recipients have been deported.
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