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'Our Lost Son': Migrant Boy Still Separated From Parents

Associated Press

   BUDA, TEXAS - A judge will rule on whether a 9-year-old Guatemalan boy
   who was separated from his father at the border can stay in this
   country, and whether his father will be allowed to return to the United
   States.

   After spending nearly a year in federal facilities, Byron Xol (Shol)
   has been living with a Texas family in recent months. His father,
   David, was deported to Guatemala.

   He says he and his son left that country because they had been
   threatened by gangsters. He is an evangelical Christian, and says he
   refused to join the gang because his faith forbids violence.

   David is one of 21 parents included in an American Civil Liberties
   Union motion that they be allowed to re-enter the country and seek
   asylum.

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