After a nightmarish eight year custody case, a Houston woman and her daughter have finally been reunited.

As reported by Fox News, Dorotea Garcia and her 13-year-old daughter Alondra Diaz arrived at Bush Intercontinental Airport on Saturday morning after a judge in the Mexican state of Michoacan returned the girl to Garcia. DNA tests had been used to prove that the two were in fact mother and daughter.

Standing before her Houston home and embracing her daughter, Garcia described her emotionally charged reunion in Spanish, saying, "What I had been wishing for so many years. Finally I can touch her. She is with me and I am grateful to God."

In 2007, the U.S.-born girl was taken to Mexico by her father, Reynaldo Diaz, without her mother's consent after the couple had divorced. Until very recently the girl's whereabouts had been unknown.

Last month a judge in Mexico erroneously ruled that another girl, a 14-year-old named Alondra Luna, was the missing girl and ordered her turned over to Garcia who then proceeded to bring the wrong child back to Houston.

As reported by CBS, the Mexican girl had been pulled away screaming in defiance from her middle school by federal police. When DNA testing showed that she was not Garcia's daughter, she was returned to her real family in Guanajuato.

When the right daughter was finally returned to her mother's home, she was met with balloons and signs on the garage door that said in Spanish, "Welcome Alondra," and, "We love you very much, Alondra."

Diaz expressed her gratitude that her mother had not ever stopped looking for her: "It's wonderful that a mother would do so much," she said.

The teenage girl said she was looking forward to learning English and learning about the United States and as well as her family.