New Mexico AG sues for return of teen forced to cross border by foster care staff
Summary
New Mexico's Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a lawsuit to get a 15-year-old boy returned from Mexico after foster care staff took him to the Texas border and forced him to cross alone. The boy was sent to find his mother, a Mexican national who was deported earlier, and was left at the border by New Mexico officials, who then refused to take him back.Key Facts
- The boy is a 15-year-old American citizen involved in New Mexico’s foster care system.
- On July 6, foster care staff took him to El Paso, Texas, and told him to cross into Mexico alone.
- His mother is a Mexican national who was arrested on drug charges and deported earlier this year.
- After crossing, the boy could not find his mother immediately and returned to the U.S., where border officials told New Mexico to take him back.
- New Mexico foster care staff refused to retrieve him, saying he was a “Texas problem,” and left him at the border.
- The boy was then placed with Texas child welfare but was later returned to his mother in Mexico.
- New Mexico’s Attorney General is seeking a court order to prevent children from being taken out of the U.S. without court approval.
- The New Mexico child welfare agency says the boy was never at risk and that reuniting him with his mother in Mexico was requested and reviewed as safe.
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