{"id":391623,"date":"2026-07-30T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391623\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:38:09","slug":"castro-highlights-ice-detention-of-local-high-school-student-and-father-in-san-antonio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391623\/","title":{"rendered":"Castro highlights ICE detention of local high school student and father in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro is sharing the story of a local high school student and father who were picked up by ICE agents while their asylum case plays out. <\/p>\n<p>16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo, who attended Churchill High School, was taken by ICE while on her way to church, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoaquinCastrotx\/status\/2082621485798113507?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Castro shared via X<\/a> on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Her father, Fernando Suaza Ortiz, was allegedly told by ICE to come pick her up or they would send her out of state. He was taken into ICE custody when he showed up to pick up his daughter, Castro said. <\/p>\n<p>Ortiz was employed at the Hilton Garden Inn. &#8220;Neither has committed a crime. Their asylum case is pending. Now they\u2019re both sitting at the Dilley Trailer Prison,&#8221; Castro&#8217;s post read in part. <\/p>\n<p>Castro has continued to call for the closing of the ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas, just south of San Antonio. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Castro along with several members of the democratic women&#8217;s caucus toured the facility. They&#8217;re calling for homeland security to release families who are being held by ICE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro is sharing the story of a local high school student&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-391623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}