Nine Days of Agony
From behind bars, a father searches for one of the 2,000 kids still separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
LOS FRESNOS, Tex.—For the ninth day in a row, a Honduran man named Cristian pleaded with officials inside the immigration jail here to tell him where his 7-year-old son is. The government separated them after they crossed the border illegally in mid-June, and Cristian has been asking for his whereabouts ever since.
When we spoke by phone Saturday morning, Cristian sounded frantic. He said they fled Honduras because crooked cops beat him and threatened to kill him in retaliation for informing on them. But after more than a week inside this Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center
