Parents Previously Deported From US Reunite With Terminally Ill Son in Mexico After Judge Orders Release

Isidoro González Avilés and Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya reunited with their son Kevin González on Saturday evening in Durango, Mexico, one day after their release from a Department of Homeland Security detention facility in Arizona. U.S. district judge in Tucson, Arizona, ordered their release on Thursday morning.

Kevin González flew to Mexico around a week ago hoping to be reunited with his parents before he dies. U.S. citizen with terminal stage 4 colon cancer.

U.S. But raised in Mexico. He fell ill while visiting family in Chicago over Christmas and was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. “What I want to say to people is thank you for helping my family to be able to have the choice,” Kevin González told CNN in Durango shortly after reuniting with his parents.

His face was gaunt as he spoke. He said he would celebrate Mother’s Day Sunday by giving his mother lots of hugs, over and over. Avilés and Amaya were in tears as they embraced Kevin. “We managed to make my son’s dream come true: to be with him again, to love him, to give him the love we could not give him during these months when he was not with us,” Isidoro González Avilés said after reuniting with his son.

“These tears are from emotion, from seeing him again, from touching him again, from telling him how much I love him,” Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya said while holding her son. U.S. after entering illegally.

Isidoro González Avilés had been arrested and charged multiple times for different crimes ranging from minor to serious and was deported in 2011. Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya illegally entered the United States for the first time in 2005 and was later removed back to Mexico in 2011.