Updated March 31, 2026 1:24 PM
When her best friend finally appeared from the doorway, Damaris Bello didn’t say words. She simply opened her arms. Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez didn’t hesitate. Estrada Juarez collapsed into her daughter’s embrace. For the next 20 minutes, they exchanged many tears but few words – just a flurry of hugs and kisses, trying to make up for the time apart.
“I don’t have a life if she’s not with me,” Estrada Juarez, 42, said Monday night. The emotional reunion unfolded outside the San Ysidro pedestrian crossing, seconds after Estrada Juarez returned to the U.S. with a humanitarian parole. Forty days earlier, Bello had watched immigration agents arrest her mother at a routine green card appointment in downtown Sacramento. Estrada Juarez was deported to Mexico by the next morning.
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