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High school student sent to Mexico after losing DACA status killed less than a month later, reports say

A US high school student was killed in Mexico three weeks after US immigration officials threatened him with deportation, according to local news reports.

Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco left Mexico at age three, and spent most of his life with this parents and three younger siblings in Des Moines, Iowa, the Des Moines Register reports.

As a teenager, he was granted protection from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme (DACA) - an Obama-era programme offering protections for those brought into the US illegally as children. Manuel attended a local high school, and was expected to graduate in May. According to his friends, he had a college scholarship lined up in Chicago.

Instead, he was murdered in the Mexican state of Zacatecas while out with a family friend, his mother told the Register.

Manuel’s DACA status was revoked in 2017, after he was convicted on two misdemeanours, according to a spokesperson for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In the months following, he was convicted of two more - including driving under the influence.