An American citizen was detained for 10 days by immigration agents after being accused of illegally entered the United States when he would have realized Arizona this month, his family said.
Jose Hermosillo, a 19 -year -old who lives in Albuquerque, was arrested near Nogales, Arizona, April 8, according to court documents. This alleges that he entered illegally into the country of Mexico and that he was found “without the appropriate immigration documents”.
According to court documents, Hermosillo “admitted to having illegally entered the United States of America in Mexico on April 7, 2025.
Arizona Public Media reported that Hermosillo and her girlfriend went to Tucson to visit her family.
The point of sale reported that Hermosillo was lost and walked near the headquarters of the border patrol during his detention. At the time, he had not identified himself on him and denied being in Nogales, according to the public media of Arizona.
Nugales, a city on the border of Mexico, is around 70 miles of Tucson.
The little aunt of Hermosillo, Grace Layva, said that the family had learned that he was detained at the Correctional Center of Florence in Arizona and gave managers her social security card and her birth certificate.
Hermosillo was released after 10 days, according to public media in Arizona. His lawyer did not immediately respond to the request for comments from NBC News on Monday.
Layva said Hermosillo told agents he came from the United States, but “they didn’t believe him,” said media.
“I think they would have kept it,” she said. “He would probably have already been expelled in Mexico.”
Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Security, said that his arrest “was the direct result of hermosillo’s own actions and statements.”
“The story pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false,” she said in an article on X on Monday.
McLaughlin said Hermosillo had approached agents of the border patrol in Tucson, said that he had illegally entered the country through Nogales and that he wanted to go and finish “an sworn declaration identifying himself as a Mexican citizen who had entered illegally”.
“He was treated and appeared before the court on April 11. Subsequently, he was detained by the American marshals in Florence, in Az. A few days later, his family presented documents showing American citizenship,” said McLaughlin. “The accusations were rejected and he was released in his family.”
Documents show that his case was rejected without prejudice on Thursday.
