Mexico's government has stated that it may have identified signs of life for a third of the country's 130,000 registered missing people, prompting criticism from families who believe this is an attempt to downplay the depth of Mexico's disappearance crisis. The government used cross-referencing data from vaccination records, birth and marriage registries, and tax filings to identify around 40,367 people who showed activity in government records since they'd been reported missing. Marcela Figueroa, a top security official, said these findings indicated that those people might still be alive. However, Héctor Flores, leader of a search collective in the state of Jalisco, called the report as "misleading" and criticized the government's methodology. The dispute over how Mexico tracks its disappearance crisis has been longstanding, with families believing changes to the registry could reduce real cases from the list and hinder search efforts.