Parents of Teen Battling Cancer to Be Released, Will Reunite with Him in Mexico
An immigration judge ordered the parents transferred from custody so they can reunite with Kevin Gonzalez, whose cancer has spread to his stomach and lungs.
- On Thursday, an immigration judge ordered Kevin Gonzalez's parents released from custody and transferred to Nogales, Arizona, enabling reunion with their son battling stage 4 colon cancer in Mexico.
- Kevin, a United States citizen, remains in Durango, Mexico, battling terminal stage 4 colon cancer diagnosed earlier this year, while his parents were detained in Douglas, Arizona, after attempting to re-enter the country.
- The Department of Homeland Security denied visa applications due to prior immigration history, while The Mexican Consulate and Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro advocated for the parents' release.
- "I just want to spend my last days with them," Kevin said, as his grandmother Virginia Amaya confirmed the cancer has invaded his stomach and lungs.
- Officials express hope the family will soon reunite following the transfer to Nogales, concluding a high-profile humanitarian case that drew intervention from legal advocates and lawmakers.
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Isidoro González Avilés and Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya travel to Mexico after being released by immigration authorities in Arizona
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Parents of teen battling cancer to be released, will reunite with him in Mexico
An immigration judge has ordered the expedited release of a Chicago teen’s parents from custody so they can reunite with him as he battles terminal cancer. Kevin Gonzalez, 18, went public with his pleas that his parents be released from immigration custody as he continues to battle stage 4 colon cancer in Durango, Mexico. Kevin, a U.S. citizen, was diagnosed earlier this year, and the cancer has spread to his stomach and lungs, leading doctors t…
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A U.S. immigration judge on Thursday ordered the release of the parents of a young American who asked to see them before dying because of cancer, the Mexican consulate in Chicago told EFE. Kevin González, a young man born 18 years ago in Chicago and with terminal cancer, wanted to embrace for the last time his parents who were detained in immigration custody in Arizona, United States. Kevin traveled in search of their parents, but they were in d…
The case of Kevin González, an 18-year-old with terminal colon cancer, took a hopeful turn after a U.S. immigration judge ordered the release and expedited deportation of his parents so they could join him in Mexico. Kevin was born in Chicago, but currently lives in Durango with his grandmother, Virginia Amaya, while battling an incurable disease, according to his family. His parents, Isidoro González Avilés and Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya, were …
Telemundo Nueva InglaterraTelemundo 62NOGALES – The parents of Kevin González, a youth with terminal cancer, were already released by ICE after several days of detention at the Florence detention center in Arizona. Around noon on May 8, Isidoro González Avilés and Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya, Kevin González’s parents, crossed the border of Nogales and this very Friday they could reach Durango. “I love him very much,” Ramírez Amaya told Telemundo Arizona, as a message to his son. In J…
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Against time and in the midst of a heartbreaking situation, Kevin González, a young man from Chicago with terminal cancer, is closer to fulfilling his last wish: to see his parents for the last time. A federal judge ordered the expeditious deportation of his parents, Norma Anabel and Isidoro González, so that they could travel to Mexico and meet with his son, who is currently in Durango with his grandmother. The news, which Kevin had waited for …
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