She’s Free After 22 Years in Prison for a Crime She Didn’t Commit. ICE Says She Can Stay—for Now.

Update, March 11, 2026: This story has been updated to include a statement from the Department of Homeland Security and information about Mejia’s Temporary Protected Status. On Monday afternoon, officials from the State of Texas officially apologized to Carmen Mejia, a woman who spent almost 23 years in prison after being convicted of murdering a child by scalding him to death. “We could not have been more wrong,” Colin Bellair, an assistant district attorney with the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, told Mejia, who sat at a table next to her lawyers in the 460th District Court in Austin. “In this case, from the start, the worst was assumed: that this was an intentional act.” Another ADA, Sarah Byrom, also stood and addressed Mejia. “Today…

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