Undocumented Mexican Woman Dies, Parents Denied Entry

Undocumented Mexican Woman Dies, Parents Denied Entry
In this Friday, Aug. 10, 2012 photo, rancher Dan Bell, who owns a 35,000-acre cattle ranch along the border between the United States and Mexico, has a portion of his land protected by an imposing border fence, left, but it ends here, where a small barbed-wire fence takes over, in Nogales, Ariz. When Bell drives through his property, he speaks of the hurdles that the Border Patrol faces in his rolling green hills of oak and mesquite trees: The hours it takes to drive to some places, the wilderness areas that are generally off-limits to motorized vehicles, and the environmental reviews required to extend a dirt road. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
In this Friday, Aug. 10, 2012 photo, rancher Dan Bell, who owns a 35,000-acre cattle ranch along the border between the United States and Mexico, has a portion of his land protected by an imposing border fence, left, but it ends here, where a small barbed-wire fence takes over, in Nogales, Ariz. When Bell drives through his property, he speaks of the hurdles that the Border Patrol faces in his rolling green hills of oak and mesquite trees: The hours it takes to drive to some places, the wilderness areas that are generally off-limits to motorized vehicles, and the environmental reviews required to extend a dirt road. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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.

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