Undocumented Mexican Woman Dies, Parents Denied Entry

Published December 16, 2016

FILE In this July 28, 2010 photo, a US border patrol vehicle drives along the U.S.-Mexico border fence near Yuma, Ariz., as seen from the outskirts of San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. Arizona launched a website Wednesday, July 20, 2011, to accept donations to pay for fencing along the Mexico border, and a supporter says the $3.8 million people donated to defend the state's 2010 immigration enforcement law could be just a taste of what to expect. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias) (AP2010)

A Mexican man lamented that U.S. immigration officials didn’t allow the parents of his dying wife to travel from Mexico to Houston to see her one last time before she died.

Luis Aguillon told the Houston Chronicle that his 26-year-old Mexican immigrant wife, Maria Sanchez, died Sunday afternoon.

Her parents were denied entry by federal officials to see their daughter before she passed.

Sanchez had an inoperable tumor on her spine and was being cared for by Aguillon at the couple's Houston apartment.

Customs and Border Protection officials three times denied her parents' request to enter the country on humanitarian grounds to visit her. Sanchez, who was in the U.S. illegally, hadn't seen them in nine years.

A Customs and Border Protection spokesman says the rare humanitarian parole could be granted only for a very compelling emergency.

Aguillon, who is legally in the U.S., said he'll take his wife's body to Mexico for burial.

This story contains material from The Associated Press.

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