Guatemalan asylum seeker Hermelindo Che Coc separated from his 6-yr-old son fears being deported alone. His son is detained in NY & they have limited phone contact. “When I spoke to my son Monday, he cried. Papa, you don’t love me anymore. How come you haven’t called me?”
Tonight, Guatemalan asylum seeker Hermelindo Che Coc was reunited w/ his 6-yr-old son, Jefferson at LAX. The two were separated at the border, didn’t see each other nearly 2 months. The boy had a vacant look in his eyes. Also a cough, bruise on his eye & rashes all over his body.
Here is an old photo of Jefferson in his village in Guatemala. He proudly wore his Sunday best & on the ground there is a bag of pan dulce, a treat his dad used 2 buy him after mass. Hermelindo showed him this photo on their way home from LAX & the boy smiled for the first time 
