They hold hands through steel poles at the US-Mexico border, “Te quiero mucho mija,” Francisco Duarte Tineo says, tearfully telling his daughter that he loves her.
Aracely Duarte Perez is a US citizen and recently came to Imperial Beach, where San Diego meets Playas de Tijuana, for a brief, emotional moment with her father.
It wasn’t always like this. Aracely is an engineering student in San Diego, but she had been enrolled in school in Los Angeles until both her parents made the decision to self-deport…