A Mexican woman illegally living in Texas was deported from the US after publicly complaining about the viral arrest of her teenage son, who is an American citizen that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleges was attempting to obstruct an ICE operation.
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Teresa De Jesus Ochoa Briseno was returned to Mexico by ICE on Monday, just days after her 17-year-old son was detained, officials said.
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Ochoa Briseno criticized the agency following a viral four-minute clip, which captured her son, Luis Ochoa, and another teen being detained during a traffic stop on September 11 in Alamo, about 239 miles from San Antonio.
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'He is a minor; it's traumatic enough for an adult — for something like this to happen to him is really tough,' Ochoa Briseno told KRGV.
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'It was eight hours without hearing from him; they wouldn't give me any information - they behaved very badly.
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A DHS spokesperson told the Daily Mail that Ochoa Briseno was an illegal 'alien from Mexico' who had 'repeatedly refused lawful commands' from officers.
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The mother was issued a final order of removal, the spokesperson said, but DHS did not respond to questions about whether her detention was connected to her recent comments.
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Ochoa Briseno and her son spoke to the outlet outside the Alamo Police Department, where they filed a police report.
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Teresa De Jesus Ochoa Briseno was returned to Mexico by ICE on Monday, just days after her 17-year-old son, Luis Ochoa was detained
A viral four-minute clip, which captured her son, Luis Ochoa, and another teen being detained during a traffic stop on September 11 in Alamo, Texas
The complaint was forwarded to the DHS's Office of Inspector General, which investigates allegations involving the agency, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
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Luis accused the officers of confronting him and his friend after they stopped to record the officers' operation.
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'We saw an ICE raid on a truck.
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We stopped to record, and when we were recording, my friend JC gets smacked by one of the agents,' Ochoa said.
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The woman hits him with the door, and that's when everything starts.
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The woman chases him back to my car.'
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Luis said that once inside his car, the officer put her elbow on his friend's neck while he begged her to stop.
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Footage appeared to show an officer striking Ochoa's acquaintance in the face multiple times.
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They got on top of me saying, 'Don't resist.'
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I was never resisting.
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They broke my wrist,' Ochoa said.
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However, a DHS spokesperson described the teens to the outlet as 'anti-ICE agitators who were attempting to obstruct officers' operation.
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Ochoa Briseno's attorney cast doubt on the claim that his client's arrest was unrelated to her criticism of the agents who detained her son
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Justice must be served - and it must be served against the officers who beat them,' said Ochoa Briseno told KRGV.
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The spokesperson added that two officers required medical attention as a result of the incident.
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'When officers exited the vehicle and attempted to detain him, the agitator became verbally and physically combative and resisted officers,' a DHS spokesperson told the outlet.
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'Officers relied on their training to control the situation, and the agitators were placed under arrest.
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Deportation officers sustained minor injuries and were treated at a local clinic.
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The mother rejected the department's account of events.
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'Justice must be served - and it must be served against the officers who beat them,' Ochoa Briseno said.
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Ochoa Briseno's attorney cast doubt on the claim that his client's arrest was unrelated to her criticism of the agents who detained her son.
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'That's too big a coincidence to believe that she is detained just a week after her United States citizen child was unlawfully detained and arrested,' immigration attorney Carlos M Garcia told KRGV.
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A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told the Daily Mail that Ochoa Briseno was an illegal 'alien from Mexico' who had 'repeatedly refused lawful commands' from officers when she was arrested on Monday
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In this country we cherish the First Amendment and believe that we have a right to speak out against injustice, but this is a clear message about what the repercussions are for people who decide to speak out.'
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According to DHS, Ochoa Briseno illegally entered the country by crossing the Rio Grande River around June 2025.
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The mother was granted a voluntary return to Mexico on July 13, 2025, but later illegally reentered the US at an unknown time and place, according to officials.
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'Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences.
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Illegal aliens are not welcome in the US,' the DHS spokesperson said
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