A missing Guadalajara driver was recruited by organized crime, and his family’s asylum case in the U.S. is being pushed to third countries under transfer rules.Julio worked as a driver for a wealthy family in Guadalajara, initially handling errands, school drop-offs, and lessons. He later learned the family was connected to a drug trafficker and that organized crime had recruited him. In 2016, he told Blanca Hernandez that his boss had started asking him to deliver packages. Ten years later, Julio Alfredo De Avila Hernandez is missing. Relatives fled Jalisco and sought asylum in the United States, but U.S. policy requires transferring asylum seekers to third countries deemed safe. In April 2026, an immigration judge offered Ecuador, Honduras, or Guatemala, in that order, and the family has appealed to remain in the U.S. Alondra De Avila said Ecuador is worse than Mexico and crossed the border in 2024 with her son to surrender and seek protection. "“I can't get out of here,” Blanca Hernandez recalls her son saying, when he confessed that organized crime had recruited him. The boss has already started asking me to deliver packages, he told her, horrified, back in 2016. Ten years later, Julio Alfredo De Avila Hernandez is missing." #asylum #us-immigration-policy #mexico-organized-crime #missing-person #guadalajara[|]