'Return him to me,' pleads mother of 2-year-old migrant found alone in Mexico

FILE PHOTO: An agent of the National Migration Institute (INM) carries a boy, believed by authorities to be about 2 years old, who was found alone near an overcrowded truck that had carried more than 100 migrants in suffocating conditions at the Ocozocuautla-Las Choapas road, in Veracruz state, Mexico June 28, 2021. Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM)/Handout via REUTERS

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Lorena Garcia, a young woman from a rural village in western Honduras, has accepted that her 2-year-old son has lost his chance at the American dream. Now, she just wants him home.

The boy, Wilder, gained international media attention when he was found alone on a roadside earlier in the week in Mexico's Veracruz state, half naked and crying, near a truck that carried migrants in suffocating conditions.