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BACKGROUND

Petitioner seeks the return of his and Respondent’s five-year-old daughter, I.S.E.L. See 27 Dkt. No. 1. According to Petitioner’s Verified Complaint and Petition for Return of Child Under 16 Years Old (“Compl.”) [Dkt. No. 1], Petitioner and Respondent met and became involved in a romantic relationship sometime in 2016. Compl. ¶ 4. Petitioner was a Mexican citizen, but Respondent was a United States citizen who became a permanent Mexican resident at some point before I.S.E.L. was born in 2018. Id. I.S.E.L. was born in Mexico and was enrolled in school in Mexico. Id. Petitioner and Respondent allegedly ended their relationship in 2021. Id. Upon the disillusion of their relationship, Petitioner moved out of the family residence, while Respondent remained in the residence with I.S.E.L. According to the Complaint, Petitioner and Respondent made an “informal agreement” to co-parent I.S.E.L. Id. This arrangement apparently dissolved sometime in 2022, when Petitioner became involved in a romantic relationship with someone who was not Respondent, and Respondent allegedly began threatening to take I.S.E.L. to…