Chicago, Illinois — A Chicago-born teenager with terminal cancer died one day after reuniting with his parents in Mexico following their release from U.S. immigration custody.
Kevin González, 18, had publicly pleaded for authorities to release his parents, Isidro González Avilés and Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya, so they could be with him in his final days. González, a U.S. citizen born in Chicago and raised in Mexico, was diagnosed in January with metastatic stage four colon cancer while visiting relatives in Illinois.
His parents were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona in April after they crossed the U.S. border without permission. They had reportedly sought emergency permission to enter the United States but were denied because of previous unlawful entries.
After González stopped responding to treatment at the University of Chicago Medical Center, he returned to Durango, Mexico, to be with relatives. A doctor’s letter requested compassionate release for at least his mother, saying he was not expected to survive long.
A federal judge in Tucson ordered the parents’ release Thursday and expedited their deportation to Mexico. They reunited with Kevin on Saturday at his grandmother’s home. Family members told Telemundo and other outlets that he died late Sunday afternoon.
The case drew statements from Chicago-area Democrats, who called for a more humane immigration system.
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