Overview

• U.S. authorities carried out a controlled deportation through the Dennis DeConcini crossing in Nogales, where Mexican prosecutors executed the arrest order.
• Sandra Lucía Téllez Nieves was taken to the Hermosillo women’s reentry center and placed at the disposition of the sentencing judge.
• She was convicted in 2016 for negligent homicide and injuries tied to the 2009 blaze that killed 49 children, with her sentence later reduced to five years and seven months in 2022.
• Reports indicate she had been a fugitive in the United States and was previously held in a detention center in Eloy, Arizona, with an Interpol notice cited in coverage.
• Families of victims say they received no formal notification and allege her U.S. lawyers sought asylum for her, while Senator Lilly Téllez describes herself as only a distant relative and says she does not know her.