I’m glad she’s alive, in the US, and in an undisclosed location. I hope her family can join her.

The young police chief who abandoned her post in the Juárez Valley after death threats is not detained in a U.S. facility anymore, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement records.

The Chihuahua Human Rights Commission said immigration agents in El Paso interviewed Marisol Valles García, 21, last week to see if she had credible fear to flee her country and seek asylum. Valles was processed and released while some of her relatives are still in custody.

An immigration judge will hear her case in the future. A date has not been determined.

Officials are not disclosing her whereabouts, but she is staying in the United States.

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Valles, criminology student and mother of an infant son, was police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, a town of 4,700, since October. Valles was part of an experiment to have police departments do more social work and regain people’s trust.

Last week, Valles asked for a leave of absence on March 1 and was supposed to return to work on Monday. Reports of death threats against her and her flight began to swirl.

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Marisol Valles García (El Paso Times file photo)

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