Mexicali Mayor Norma Bustamante and Her Husband Have Their Visas Revoked

On the morning of May 15, 2025, Mayor Norma Alicia Bustamante Martínez made one of her classic, naive statements to which she is accustomed to the local press, who questioned her about her legal status in the United States and whether she had an active tourist visa.

In her typical style, Bustamante Martínez said that years ago she was sent for a second inspection because she was caught eating a tomato just as she was entering the inspection range of CBP officers.

But what three months ago was a joke, a quip by the mayor of the Baja California capital, on Friday, August 8, 2025, turned into a complicated and serious episode for the mayor and former news anchor. That day, her husband, Luis Samuel Guerrero Delgado, a physician by profession and current COEPRA official, was detained at the international port of entry in Calexico, California, and sent for a second review.

According to information obtained by Semanario ZETA, the State Department’s order revoking Dr. Guerrero Delgado’s visa has been extended to his wife, Mayor Norma Alicia Bustamante Martínez, but the revocation of the Morena mayor’s visa has not been finalized because she has not attempted to cross the border into the United States.

This case occurs in a context in which, months earlier, Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda had lost her visa along with her husband Carlos Torres.