HOUSON – A Houston mother is urgently seeking to be reunited with her 15-year-old son, Emmanuel Gonzalez Garcia, who is currently hospitalized and facing emergency surgery.

Gonzalez Garcia, who has autism, disappeared on Oct. 4 while his mother was selling fruit on the northwest side of Houston. He went to use the restroom and did not return.

Houston police found him the next day at a McDonald’s off Airline Drive near the North Freeway.

Authorities said Gonzalez Garcia told them he was homeless, from another country, and had no local family.

After what HPD said was four hours of trying to track down an appropriate contact, with the help of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE), authorities contacted the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Refugee Resettlement.

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