ICE holds El Paso student and family at Texas detention center
Seventeen-year-old El Paso High School student Michell Germán, her 11-year-old sister and their parents are being held together at the Dilley family detention center while their immigration cases proceed. ICE says the Venezuelan family entered the United States unlawfully in 2022 and that the parents lacked legal documentation; the agency says the arrests occurred during targeted enforcement on Oct. 22. The family’s attorney disputes aspects of ICE’s account, saying the father and girls were detained while heading to school and their mother the following day, and says the family has been following immigration procedures, has work permits and is represented by counsel. Germán, a dance-team member and career-technology student, is expected to miss her school’s Senior Night, and Rep. Joaquin Castro has called for the family’s release.







