Gallery: This Guatemalan family hasn't seen their 8-year-old in months
Families Divided
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More in this seriesLast May, David Xol, a farmworker from the town of San Miguel Limón in the highlands of Guatemala, made his way with his 7-year-old son Byron across Mexico to the Texas border during the height of the Trump Administration's zero-tolerance policy toward undocumented immigrants. They were apprehended by Border Patrol officers and later that month, David Xol was deported back to Guatemala. His son was sent to a shelter in Baytown, where he's been ever since.
Byron turned 8 in June. Read the full story here.
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