{"id":342256,"date":"2025-10-30T03:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342256\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:49:12","slug":"houston-mother-reunites-with-missing-14-year-old-son-but-he-still-cant-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342256\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston mother reunites with missing 14-year-old son, but he still can’t come home"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston family’s emotional reunion ends without resolution after the teen’s mysterious disappearance.<\/p>\n

HOUSTON \u2014 Three weeks after 14-year-old Emmanuel Garcia<\/a> went missing while his mother and sister were selling fruit on a Houston street corner, Maria Garcia was able to see him again. The reunion took place Wednesday at a federal detention center for unaccompanied minors, where Emmanuel has been held since being picked up by HPD<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n

At a press conference Wednesday at Congressman Al Green\u2019s office, Maria, the teen\u2019s mother, described the meeting as both joyful and heartbreaking. Maria said her hope remains the same, to reunite with her son and to take him home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Congressman Green called the case \u201ca mission of mercy,\u201d adding that while the family\u2019s full reunion has yet to happen, \u201ctoday has been a good day, and some good things have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attorney Raed Gonzalez who is representing the Garcia family, said Emmanuel is currently being evaluated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and that officials are checking Maria\u2019s background before approving the child\u2019s release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sure hope that it happens sooner rather than later,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n

Garcia said she remains hopeful.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the help of God, I\u2019ll be able to bring him home one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at newstips@khou.com<\/a> or call 713-521-4310 and include the best way to reach you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston family’s emotional reunion ends without resolution after the teen’s mysterious disappearance. HOUSTON \u2014 Three weeks after…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":342257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-342256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115461080140766600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}