"I just want to tell you I love you. I miss you. And you will always have an angel in heaven looking over you. Kevin Gonzalez said in Spanish in a recorded video to his parents from his hospital room at the University of Chicago Medical Center."
"They were arrested last month trying to cross the border in a desperate attempt to be by their son's bedside, after their request for a humanitarian visa was denied. Kevin Gonzalez has stage 4 colon cancer. He was diagnosed after falling ill while visiting his brother and other relatives in Chicago this past Christmas."
"My brother is my life. He's everything for me, Gonzalez's brother Jovany Ramirez said, expressing the family's desperation to reunite before Kevin's terminal illness claims his life."
Kevin Gonzalez, an 18-year-old with stage 4 colon cancer, is hospitalized in Chicago with only days to live. His parents, who were deported from the U.S. previously and now live in Mexico, were arrested attempting to cross the border to see him. They were detained at Arizona's Florence Correctional Center after their humanitarian visa request was denied. Kevin recorded a video message to his parents expressing his love while hospitalized. His parents face a court hearing Thursday where they may be ordered to plead guilty, with deportation likely following. The family is desperately seeking to reunite before Kevin's death.
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