Immigration And Civil Rights News

US citizen Brian Morales García returns home after wrongful deportation to Mexico

Brian José Morales García, a 25-year-old US citizen born in Denver, was wrongly detained and deported to Mexico in April 2025 after a traffic stop in Texas. Despite presenting his Colorado birth certificate to border officials, he was transferred through multiple detention facilities and forced to sign deportation documents under duress. After nearly five months in Mexico, a federal lawsuit and new evidence led the Justice Department to allow his return to the US on August 30, 2026. His case highlights systemic failures in verifying citizenship claims and the trauma inflicted on US citizens caught in immigration enforcement.