Ariel Nunez Figueroa, a 30-year-old Mexican national, was deported to Mexico by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on March 6th, where he faces charges of kidnapping and organized crime in connection with the 2014 disappearance and murder of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers’ College.
ICE transported Nunez from the Montgomery Processing Center in Conroe, Texas, to the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge Port of Entry in Laredo, Texas, where he was handed over to Mexican authorities.
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According to ICE, Nunez is alleged to have played a role in the horrific events of September 2014, when 43 students were abducted and murdered.
“For nearly eleven years, this foreign fugitive evaded authorities while the family and friends of those 43 students who were brutally murdered patiently awaited justice for their loved ones,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Field Office Director Bret Bradford. “Thanks to outstanding teamwork by ICE, Interpol and the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, we were able to successfully track him down and remove him to Mexico to face prosecution for his alleged crimes.”
Nunez had illegally entered the United States at an unknown date and location. ICE received information from Interpol in September 2024 suggesting he was residing in the Houston area.
ICE fugitive operations officers quickly located and apprehended him on September 9, 2024. An immigration judge with the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review ordered his removal to Mexico on January 22nd.
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