Over 500 Americans are feared missing in Mexico. Ernesto Garnica and Robert Torres’ mothers tell the Post how their sons vanished six years ago
– as relatives of victims remain frustrated at an apparent lack of action by authorities on both sides of the border to find their loved ones.Garnica, who was born in 1994 in Long Beach, California, worked at a company that served migrant children in Los Fresnos, Texas.
The following morning, on Aug. 31, 2017, Garnica left his grandparents’ house at 4 a.m. with a friend.A day later, Ruiz reported his suspected kidnapping to Mexican and American authorities.courtesy of Jeannette Cerecer Ruiz Ruiz is frustrated by the lack of progress in her son’s case, which contains more than 3,000 pages of files. “At the FBI in Brownsville, Texas, they have always told me that Mexico has to request their intervention and the public ministry that is in charge of the investigation in Mexico says that the FBI only intervenes in matters of national security,” she said.
It paled in comparison to what occurred after her 21-year-old son Robert disappeared in July 2017 while visiting his father’s relatives in Agualeguas, Nuevo Leon, 50 miles from the Rio Grande, she said.He had been traveling with a friend but never arrived. “I feel Robert was abandoned by his government, him being a U.S. citizen,” Torres told The Post. “I feel as if they left him over there in a country he doesn’t know. Robert has not been represented in any way, shape or form.”,” a Facebook page that aims to reunite missing U.S. citizens who loved ones.
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