PE脩ITAS, Texas (AP) 鈥 The daughter of one of two sisters from Texas who went missing in Mexico along with their friend three weeks ago while traveling to a flea market says she hasn't lost hope that they'll be located.
鈥淲e are waiting for them to come back home,鈥 Maria Guadalupe Ramirez, 27, told in Weslaco.
The FBI said in a statement Thursday that it was unable to comment on the investigation but said the agency 鈥渞elentlessly pursues all options when it comes to protecting the American people, and this doesn鈥檛 change when they are endangered across the border.鈥
The three women 鈥 Ramirez鈥檚 mother, Marina Perez Rios, 48; Ramirez鈥檚 aunt, Maritza Trinidad Perez Rios, 47; and their friend, Dora Alicia Cervantes Saenz, 53 鈥 were headed to a flea market to sell clothes in the Mexican city of Montemorelos in the state of Nuevo Leon. The state prosecutor鈥檚 office in Nuevo Leon has said it is investigating the women鈥檚 disappearance.
The sisters live in Pe帽itas, a small Texas border city near McAllen, and are legal U.S. residents, while their friend, Saenz, lives in Mexico, KRGV reported.
Ramirez, who spoke to KRGV on Tuesday, said she's been in contact with Mexican authorities. She told the TV station that her mother and aunt, who grew up in Nuevo Leon, have made the trip several times to the market.
鈥淭hey had fun going out there, meeting new people,鈥 Ramirez told KRGV.
Ramirez told that she last spoke to her mother Feb. 25, the day after her mother and aunt crossed the border into Mexico.
Another case of Americans who went missing in Mexico received an avalanche of attention earlier this month when their March 3 after a drug cartel shootout in Matamoros. That case was when the four were found in a wooden shack. Two were alive and two were dead.
The massive search for the four kidnapped Americans involved squads of Mexican soldiers and 春色直播 Guard troops. But for most of the 112,000 Mexicans missing nationwide, the are their desperate relatives.
