EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A West Texas youth donned cap and gown to walk across the border into Mexico and visit her deported father before graduating from high school.
Leslie Silva of El Paso, in cellphone video shot by a sister, hugged her father Sunday at a border crossing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Silva then returned to El Paso and graduated from Eastlake High School, with plans to study nursing.
Silva, who posted images online, told KVIA-TV that her father has been deported three times and she wanted him to see her in a cap and gown.
Silva told the El Paso Times her father was caught living illegally in El Paso in 2007, returned to Mexico then returned to the U.S. and was deported twice more. Silva said she and her family visit him often in Mexico.