Deported migrant parents return for their children months after separations
Ariel, 6, is all smiles as he FaceTimes with his parents and sister. "Missing you always," his father Jesus says in Spanish right before they disconnect.
For nine months, their phone has been the only bridge between these parents, living in Honduras, and their son, staying with relatives in Washington, D.C.
When Ariel and his father Jesus, a migrant from Honduras who requested that ABC News not print his last name for his family's safety, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last spring, they were detained by U.S. immigration authorities, and then separated.
Jesus said that he told the officers that he would not part with his son.
"No. No, I am not giving him away. You will have to kill me first," Jesus said he told them in Spanish. "They turned me around on my back to face the wall. And they put [Ariel] in a room. When I turn around, my son is no longer there."
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