HALLSVILLE, Texas (KLTV) - An East Texas family is pleading with lawmakers to help bring their son home from what they say is wrongful imprisonment in Mexico.

Caden Hawkins of Hallsville has been in a prison in Juarez, Mexico, for nine months after driving to the border and getting lost, according to his family.

The 23-year-old was detained March 2 at the Port of Palomas Border Crossing in Columbus, New Mexico. His family said he was on a work assignment and got turned around after following his GPS system while trying to make it back home. They said he did not realize he was driving to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“I am on the phone with Caden, and he starts telling me the speed bumps are so bad in this town he’s in and then the next thing you know he is telling me that he couldn’t turn aro

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