A Mexican national wanted in his home country for aggravated homicide has been removed from the United States by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston Field Office confirmed that Hedilberto Nunez Garay, 41, was deported to Mexico on April 9, 2025. Nunez is the subject of an active arrest warrant in Durango, Mexico, for allegedly murdering 63-year-old Eladio Carrasco Corral on September 3, 2020.
The removal process saw Nunez transported from the Montgomery Processing Center in Conroe, Texas, to the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge Port of Entry in Laredo, Texas. There, ICE officers transferred custody of Nunez to Mexican authorities.
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“For far too long, dangerous foreign fugitives like this alleged murderer have been able to illegally enter the U.S. and hide out in our local communities to evade prosecution abroad for violent crime,” stated Bret Bradford, Director of the ICE ERO Houston Field Office. “Those days are over as the law enforcement community in Texas has banded together to aggressively track down foreign fugitives, transnational gang members and other criminal aliens illegally residing in the country and remove them to their country of origin to face justice for their alleged crimes.”
Nunez’s history in the United States involved multiple illegal entries. According to ICE, he first entered the U.S. at an unknown date and location. He was arrested on November 12, 2007, by the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office in Yorkville, Illinois, for driving without a license. He subsequently left the U.S.
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Nunez illegally re-entered the country near Eagle Pass, Texas, on April 29, 2022. He was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol and expelled back to Mexico under Title 42 public health authority.
He illegally entered the U.S. for a third time at an unknown date and location. Following a tip from the National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center, ICE fugitive operations officers, working with the Waco Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety, located and arrested Nunez on June 4, 2024.
An immigration judge with the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review ordered Nunez removed to Mexico on October 30, 2024. His subsequent appeal of this decision was dismissed by the Board of Immigration Appeals on March 20, 2025, paving the way for his recent deportation.
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