LAREDO, Texas — Families of 43 college students kidnapped in Mexico more than a decade ago are still waiting for justice in the case.
The victims from a rural teachers’ college were abducted during a protest in September 2014, never to be seen again. Authorities believe they were all murdered, but only bone fragments from three of them have been recovered.
One suspect, Ariel Nunez Figueroa, was captured in the Houston area in 2024 and has been in ICE custody at a processing center in Conroe ever since. This week, Houston ICE agents took Nunez to Laredo and turned him over to Mexican authorities at a border crossing. He faces charges of kidnapping and organized crime for his alleged role in the 2014 case…