Overview

• CBP allegedly annulled the tourist visas of subsecretary Sonia Villarreal Pérez and her husband, Jorge Miguel Barajas Hernández, on Aug. 20 at the Piedras Negras–Eagle Pass bridge.
• Officers notified the couple of the cancellation at the port of entry and returned them to Mexico without providing a public reason.
• Initial accounts came from Eagle Pass outlets, including El Latino Newspaper Eagle Pass, and were subsequently picked up by Mexican media.
• El Heraldo de México identified Barajas as a regional state police commander and reiterated that neither he nor Villarreal has commented.
• Reports and social-media posts have suggested Villarreal’s advanced pregnancy as a possible factor, a claim not confirmed by authorities.