‘It should be very concerning to everyone,’ says wife of detained DACA recipient
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | As the Trump administration continues to pledge to target the worst of the worst criminals in its immigration crackdown, many others are getting caught up in that crackdown. |
| 0:10.0 | Last month, 28-year-old community organizer Catalina Sochi Santiago was detained by Customs and Border Protection. |
| 0:18.0 | Despite living legally in the U.S. four years under the deferred action |
| 0:21.9 | for childhood arrivals program or DACA, she remains in ICE detention in Texas today. I spoke with |
| 0:28.4 | her wife, Desiree Miller, a few days ago. Desiree Miller, welcome to the News Hour. Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:35.3 | Hi. Thank you for having me. So your wife, So Chil, is currently in ICE detention. |
| 0:40.3 | She's been there since she was detained back on August 3rd. |
| 0:43.3 | What can you tell us about where she is, about what you know, about the conditions inside, and also how she's doing? |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, thank you for that question. |
| 0:53.3 | I'm able to speak to her every day, so we usually talk every morning. |
| 0:58.0 | And obviously there's some really concerning things that she's told me about the conditions |
| 1:01.7 | inside of the detention. |
| 1:03.0 | I think some of the main ones are that people don't receive the medical attention that they |
| 1:07.0 | need. |
| 1:08.0 | In particular, there are some pregnant women who don't get medical attention. |
| 1:10.0 | And a lot of the times when people ask for medical attention, they're just given water. The |
| 1:15.0 | water smells weird in there. They've been given food multiple times that is either expire |
| 1:20.9 | or makes people sick. There's a lot of talk about whether or not the conditions are humane |
| 1:26.3 | or not, but I think that there's no way |
| 1:27.9 | to make that situation humane when you have ripped someone away from their family. All of these |
| 1:34.4 | things that they do to make it seem as if it's humane, letting people talk to their families, |
| 1:39.4 | having video calls and having these quote-unquote mental health checkups, I think that no mental health checkup |
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