OpEd: Forced Disappearances In New Mexico 2025

Professor Jennifer Moore, New Mexico Senator Antoinette Sedillo-Lopez, and Representative Linda Serrato in this op/ed state that “New Mexicans detained by law enforcement, with no accounting of their identity or plight, are victims of an enforced disappearance under international human rights treaties and laws to which the U.S. is a signatory.

Immigration raids and unaccounted-for seizures of human beings are occurring in New Mexico and throughout the country, with increases in their frequency and magnitude as of June 2025. How many additional individuals have been taken into immigration custody, based on their suspected undocumented status, whose fates remain unknown?”

KJ